• BMJ case reports · Jan 2014

    Case Reports

    Functional paraganglioma.

    • Gokulakrishnan Balasubramanian and Vallikantha Nellaiappan.
    • Department of Internal Medicine, Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science, North Chicago, Illinois, USA.
    • BMJ Case Rep. 2014 Jan 1;2014.

    AbstractParaganglioma are tumours arising from neural crest cells of the sympathetic and parasympathetic paraganglia. Functional paraganglioma presents with symptoms of catecholamine excess that includes hypertension, flushing, diaphoresis, etc. Non-functional paraganglioma are usually found incidentally during imaging studies. Early diagnoses of functional paraganglioma are important because their removal is often curative. We present the case of a young man who presented with hypertensive crisis and severe headache, who was later found to have functional paraganglioma.

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