Pulmonary paraganglioma in a 10-year-old: a case report and review of the literature

Paraganglioma is a rare extra-adrenal tumor of the paraganglia often found in association with sympathetic and parasympathetic nerves. The case presented is of a 10-year-old boy with hemoptysis who was found to have an obstructive bronchial mass. He underwent surgical resection and biopsy confirmed...

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Autores principales: Geoffrion, Tracy R, DeKeyzer, Linde, Shah, Gopi, Nair, Suja J, Pirolli, Timothy J, Kernstine, Kemp
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2018
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5887388/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29644036
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jscr/rjy047
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author Geoffrion, Tracy R
DeKeyzer, Linde
Shah, Gopi
Nair, Suja J
Pirolli, Timothy J
Kernstine, Kemp
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DeKeyzer, Linde
Shah, Gopi
Nair, Suja J
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description Paraganglioma is a rare extra-adrenal tumor of the paraganglia often found in association with sympathetic and parasympathetic nerves. The case presented is of a 10-year-old boy with hemoptysis who was found to have an obstructive bronchial mass. He underwent surgical resection and biopsy confirmed primary pulmonary paraganglioma. He was subsequently found to have an associated genetic syndrome. This is the first case report describing a primary pulmonary paraganglioma in a child.
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spelling pubmed-58873882018-04-11 Pulmonary paraganglioma in a 10-year-old: a case report and review of the literature Geoffrion, Tracy R DeKeyzer, Linde Shah, Gopi Nair, Suja J Pirolli, Timothy J Kernstine, Kemp J Surg Case Rep Case Report Paraganglioma is a rare extra-adrenal tumor of the paraganglia often found in association with sympathetic and parasympathetic nerves. The case presented is of a 10-year-old boy with hemoptysis who was found to have an obstructive bronchial mass. He underwent surgical resection and biopsy confirmed primary pulmonary paraganglioma. He was subsequently found to have an associated genetic syndrome. This is the first case report describing a primary pulmonary paraganglioma in a child. Oxford University Press 2018-04-03 /pmc/articles/PMC5887388/ /pubmed/29644036 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jscr/rjy047 Text en Published by Oxford University Press and JSCR Publishing Ltd. All rights reserved. © The Author(s) 2018. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com
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Geoffrion, Tracy R
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Pirolli, Timothy J
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Pulmonary paraganglioma in a 10-year-old: a case report and review of the literature
title Pulmonary paraganglioma in a 10-year-old: a case report and review of the literature
title_full Pulmonary paraganglioma in a 10-year-old: a case report and review of the literature
title_fullStr Pulmonary paraganglioma in a 10-year-old: a case report and review of the literature
title_full_unstemmed Pulmonary paraganglioma in a 10-year-old: a case report and review of the literature
title_short Pulmonary paraganglioma in a 10-year-old: a case report and review of the literature
title_sort pulmonary paraganglioma in a 10-year-old: a case report and review of the literature
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5887388/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29644036
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jscr/rjy047
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