Extra-adrenal composite paraganglioma with ganglioneuroma component presenting as a pancreatic mass

Endocrine Pathology

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 191-195

  Inzani, Frediano ^a   Rindi, Guido ^a   Tamborrino, Ernesto ^a   Cobelli, Rocco ^a   Bordi, Cesare ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Chromaffin cells; Composite paraganglioma; Extra adrenal paraganglia; Immunohistochemistry; Pancreas

Indexed keywords

CHROMOGRANIN A; TUMOR MARKER;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHEMODECTOMA; COMORBIDITY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FIBROMATOSIS; GANGLIONEUROMA; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MORPHOLOGY; OVARIECTOMY; PANCREAS SURGERY; PANCREAS TUMOR; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; UROLITHIASIS; BREAST DISEASE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LEIOMYOMA; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIPLE CANCER; PATHOLOGY; UTERUS CANCER;

BREAST DISEASES; FEMALE; GANGLIONEUROMA; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LEIOMYOMA; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS, MULTIPLE PRIMARY; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; PARAGANGLIOMA, EXTRA-ADRENAL; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TUMOR MARKERS, BIOLOGICAL; UTERINE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 70449721851     PISSN: 10463976     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12022-009-9085-z     Document Type: Article

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