Cardiac Paraganglioma: Diagnostic Work Up and Review of the Literature

Abstract

Paraganglioma of the heart are potentially invasive, highly vascularized tumors for which complete resection may be curative. Derived from the cardiac wall in most instances, resectability can be assessed after integration of the data provided by MRI in T2 sequence, and coronarography. A fully documented case of a large cardiac pheochromocy-toma of the left atrium and AV groove is reported and the pertinent literature on the subject is here presented.

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M.A. Radermecker

M. A. Radermecker, M.D., Ph.D. C.H.U. Liège, B 35 Domaine Universitaire du Sart-Tilman 4000 Liège, Belgium Tel.: [phone] Fax: [phone] E-mail: [email protected]