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ArticleAnnals of thoracic surgery short reports2025

Rare Pretracheal Paraganglioma Treated With Presurgical Embolization Followed by Surgical Resection.

Hunter Chalfant, Ambarish Bhat, Sebastian Wiesemann

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Article in Annals of thoracic surgery short reports, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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3 authors.

Hunter ChalfantDepartment of Surgery, Division of General Surgery, University of Missouri School of Medicine, Columbia, Missouri.
Ambarish BhatDepartment of Radiology, University of Missouri Health, Columbia, Missouri.
Sebastian WiesemannUniversity of Missouri School of Medicine, Columbia, Missouri.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Mediastinal paragangliomas are rare tumors. Complete resection is the standard treatment. Paragangliomas are often highly vascularized, making resection potentially challenging. This report is of a 49-year-old female patient with a highly vascularized pretracheal paraganglioma that was successfully treated with preoperative embolization followed by surgical resection via left anterolateral thoracotomy.

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PMCPMC12167556

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