Patients diagnosed with pheochromocytoma or paraganglioma, tumors that form within certain endocrine tissues, such as the adrenal glands, may have abnormal endocrine activity due to the synthesis ...

The patient underwent surgery, which confirmed a malignant neck paraganglioma with metastasis to a cervical lymph node. He had no family history of carotid body tumors or pheochromocytoma.

Last among the possibilities considered is chemodectoma (nonchromaffin paraganglioma) —and particularly vagal-body tumor — because of its rarity as compared with the several other kinds of ...

The First International Symposium on Pheochromocytoma, held in October 2005, included discussions about developments concerning these rare catecholamine-producing tumors. Recommendations were made ...

MEN type 2B is a very rare disorder and can cause medullary thyroid cancer, pheochromocytoma, and lesions on the tongue and lips (mucosal neuromas). Familial paraganglioma-pheochromocytoma syndrome is ...

The panel of experts at the ISP felt strongly that localization of pheochromocytoma or paraganglioma should only be initiated if the clinical evidence for the presence of tumor is reasonably ...