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Synchronous carotid body and thoracic paraganglioma associated with a germline SDHC mutation.
Journal of vascular surgery - 1 Mar 2011
Vandy Frank C, Sisk Geoffroy, Berguer Ramon
Abstract excerpt
Paraganglionic tumors are rare. A germline mutation responsible for a familial pattern of paragangliomas (PGLs) has been identified on the genes encoding for the subunits of succinate dehydrogenase (SDH). Manifestations of those with a succinate dehydrogenase subunit C (SDHC) germline mutation have been almost exclusively reported as single head and neck paragangliomas (HNPGLs). We present a 32-year-old man with...
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