Familial concurrence of carotid body tumor and pheochromocytoma

Familial pheochromocytoma.

Pheochromocytomas and Paragangliomas (PGL) form the group of paraganglial tumours which can occur in any paraganglia from the skull base to the pelvic floor. The terminology is not uniform. While the World Health Organization (WHO) applies pheochromocytoma exclusively to adrenal tumours, many clinicians use the term pheochromocytoma also for extra-adrenal abdominal and thoracic tumours, since b...

Malignant carotid body tumor.

CASE PRESENTATION A 38-year-old woman initially presented with a 3-week history of decreased hearing in the left ear. Evaluationrevealedaleftserousotitismedia,withno evidenceofanasopharyngealmass.Shewastreated forallergicrhinitis,withsubsequentresolutionofher serous effusion. During the third trimester of her subsequent pregnancy, she noted a progressive globussensationandleft-sidedintermittent...

Paraganglioma: Carotid Body Tumor

Extra-adrenal paragangliomas are neoplasms of the paraganglia located within the paravertebral sympathetic and parasympathetic chains. Thus paragangliomas may arise anywhere along these tracts and common sites of occurrence include abdomen, retroperitoneum, chest and mediastinum and various head and neck locations such as jugulotympanic membrane, orbit, nasopharynx, larynx, vagal body and carot...

Carotid Body Tumor.

INTRODUCTION The carotid body tumour was first described by von Haller in 1743. The first two, unsuccessfully surgically treated carotid body tumours, were done by Reinger in 1880 (his patient died), and by Maydel in 1886 (his patient developed hemiplegia). Scudder made the first successful surgical removal of the carotid body tumour in 1903. Using data from the Cologne (Germany) Medline Resear...

فئوکروموسیتوم راجعه و فئوکرموسیتوم فامیلیال RECURRENT PHEOCHROMOCYTOMA AND FAMILIAL PHEICHROMOCYTOMA