Del Forno B, Zingaro C, Di Palma E, Capestro F, Rescigno G, Torracca L. Cardiac Paraganglioma Arising From the Right Atrioventricular Groove in a Paraganglioma-Pheochromocytoma Family Syndrome With Evidence of SDHB Gene Mutation: An Unusual Presentation.
Ann Thorac Surg 2017;
102:e215-e216. [PMID:
27549546 DOI:
10.1016/j.athoracsur.2016.01.072]
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Abstract
Primary cardiac paragangliomas are extremely rare. Recently this neoplasm has been associated with a familiar syndrome as a result of mutation of genes that encode proteins in the mitochondrial complex II. We report a case of a 46-year-old woman having cases of vertebral paraganglioma in her family showing an unusual anatomic and clinical presentation of cardiac paraganglioma and expressing a genetic mutation never associated before with cardiac localization of this neoplasm.
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