Incidentally discovered pelvic paraganglioma: A case report


Submitted: August 1, 2017
Accepted: September 16, 2017
Published: December 31, 2017
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Authors

  • Vittorio Imperatore Operative Unit of Urology, Buon Consiglio Hospital - Fatebenefratelli, Naples, Italy.
  • Massimiliano Creta Operative Unit of Urology, Buon Consiglio Hospital - Fatebenefratelli, Naples, Italy.
  • Sergio Di Meo Operative Unit of Urology, Buon Consiglio Hospital - Fatebenefratelli, Naples, Italy.
  • Roberto Buonopane Operative Unit of Urology, Buon Consiglio Hospital - Fatebenefratelli, Naples, Italy.
  • Lorenzo Spirito Urological Clinic, Federico II University of Naples, Naples, Italy.
  • Ferdinando Fusco Urological Clinic, Federico II University of Naples, Naples, Italy.
  • Nicola Longo Urological Clinic, Federico II University of Naples, Naples, Italy.
  • Nicola Rosario Forte Operative Unit of Pathological Anatomy, Fatebenefratelli Hospital, Benevento, Italy.
  • Vincenzo Mirone Urological Clinic, Federico II University of Naples, Naples, Italy.
Paragangliomas (PGL) are rare neuroendocrine tumors of the autonomic nervous system originating from paraganglia. Although PGL may arise at any site where physiologic paraganglionic tissue exists, the localization in the small pelvis is extremely rare. PGL may be hormonally active and release surplus catecholamines into the blood or inactive. The asymptomatic cases pose a diagnostic dilemma. We describe the case of an asymptomatic PGL arising in the small pelvis sidewall presenting as an incidentally discovered asymptomatic mass in a male subject.

Imperatore, V., Creta, M., Di Meo, S., Buonopane, R., Spirito, L., Fusco, F., Longo, N., Forte, N. R., & Mirone, V. (2017). Incidentally discovered pelvic paraganglioma: A case report. Archivio Italiano Di Urologia E Andrologia, 89(4), 319–320. https://doi.org/10.4081/aiua.2017.4.319

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