Paraganglioma masquerading as a primary liver lesion: A rare entity discovered during surgery

A 54‐year‐old woman with controlled hypertension presented with abdominal pain and weight loss. Imaging revealed a 6.6 cm liver lesion. During resection, she became severely hypertensive and diagnosis was paraganglioma. Hepatic paragangliomas are exceedingly rare but must be considered in the differ...

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Autores principales: Miller, Michelle E., Vietor, Nicole O., Park, Edward J., Sweeney, Shane P., Katz, Matthew, Vietor, Robert C.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2022
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8787724/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35106168
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.5310
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Park, Edward J.
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description A 54‐year‐old woman with controlled hypertension presented with abdominal pain and weight loss. Imaging revealed a 6.6 cm liver lesion. During resection, she became severely hypertensive and diagnosis was paraganglioma. Hepatic paragangliomas are exceedingly rare but must be considered in the differential of abdominal mass even without typical clinical symptoms.
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spelling pubmed-87877242022-01-31 Paraganglioma masquerading as a primary liver lesion: A rare entity discovered during surgery Miller, Michelle E. Vietor, Nicole O. Park, Edward J. Sweeney, Shane P. Katz, Matthew Vietor, Robert C. Clin Case Rep Case Report A 54‐year‐old woman with controlled hypertension presented with abdominal pain and weight loss. Imaging revealed a 6.6 cm liver lesion. During resection, she became severely hypertensive and diagnosis was paraganglioma. Hepatic paragangliomas are exceedingly rare but must be considered in the differential of abdominal mass even without typical clinical symptoms. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2022-01-25 /pmc/articles/PMC8787724/ /pubmed/35106168 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.5310 Text en © 2022 The Authors. Clinical Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes.
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title_full Paraganglioma masquerading as a primary liver lesion: A rare entity discovered during surgery
title_fullStr Paraganglioma masquerading as a primary liver lesion: A rare entity discovered during surgery
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title_short Paraganglioma masquerading as a primary liver lesion: A rare entity discovered during surgery
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8787724/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35106168
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.5310
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