[Functioning extra-adrenal paragangliomas]
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E M Bortolani1, P L Vandone, P Pizzocari
1Istituto di Chirurgia Generale e Cardiovascolare, Università di Milano.
Minerva Chirurgica
|August 1, 1990
Abstract:
The diagnosis of extra-adrenal paraganglioma requires the recognition of catecholamine hypertension and the site of the lesion. I-131-MIBG scintigraphy, CAT scan and angiography may localize primitive and metastatic lesions. Six cases of extra-adrenal paraganglioma (5 abdominal, 1 thoracic) surgically treated with complete resolution of the hypertensive state are presented here.