Primary mediastinal paraganglioma associated with a familial variant in the succinate dehydrogenase B subunit gene.

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Surgical management is the mainstay of therapy for primary cardiac tumors, yet due to the rarity of these malignancies, their management and workup remains a challenge. Here, we report a unique case of a patient with a primary left ventricular cardiac paraganglioma (PGL) and describe the role of a medical genetics assessment leading to the identification of a rare variant in the SDHB gene to be the causative...

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