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ArticleCureus2020

Laparoscopic Resection of a Non-functional, Extra-adrenal Paraganglioma: A Case Report and Literature Review.

Antonios Katsimantas, Spyridon Paparidis, Dimitrios Filippou, Konstantinos Bouropoulos, Nikolaos Ferakis

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Article in Cureus, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Antonios KatsimantasUrology, Mediterraneo Hospital, Glyfada, GRC.
Spyridon PaparidisUrology, Korgialenio-Benakio Hellenic Red Cross Hospital, Athens, GRC.
Dimitrios FilippouSurgery, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Medical School, Athens, GRC.
Konstantinos BouropoulosUrology, Korgialenio-Benakio Hellenic Red Cross Hospital, Athens, GRC.
Nikolaos FerakisUrology, Korgialenio-Benakio Hellenic Red Cross Hospital, Athens, GRC.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Non-functional, extra-adrenal, retroperitoneal paraganglioma is a rare, neuroendocrine, and potentially malignant tumor. Its diagnosis and treatment may be challenging. A 69-year-old female patient was admitted because of a left para-aortic, solid, 4.4-cm mass, incidentally discovered during abdominal ultrasonography for screening purposes. Her clinical examination was unremarkable. Preoperative differential diagnosis based on cross-sectional imaging included tumor of neuroendocrine or mesenchymal origin. Hormonal investigation with 24-hour urinary catecholamines and metanephrines and plasma-fractionated metanephrines was in the normal range. Following consultation with the endocrinologist and anesthesiologist, the tumor was removed by using the three-dimensional (3D) laparoscopic transperitoneal surgical approach. The perioperative course was uneventful and the patient was discharged on the third postoperative day. Histopathologic findings were consistent with the diagnosis of retroperitoneal extra-adrenal paraganglioma of 5 cm in maximum diameter.

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extra-adrenal paragangliomalaparoscopyretroperitoneal tumor

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PMID32455070
PMCPMC7243083

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