Primary Pulmonary Paraganglioma, Case Report and Review of the Literature

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<title>Abstract</title> <p>Primary pulmonary paraganglioma (PPPG) is an extremely rare neuroendocrine tumor, counting less than 1% of all paragangliomas (PGs). The incidence of PGs ranges between 2–8 per million in a year. Generally, pulmonary PGs are nonfunctional. The majority of the patients develop respiratory symptoms, such as a cough, chest pain, or dyspnea, as in our case. The average size of the neoplasm...

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• Adrenal and Paraganglionic Tumors
• Adrenal Gland Neoplasms
• Biomarkers, Tumor
• Cancer, Hypoxia, and Metabolism
• Paraganglioma
• Pheochromocytoma
• Pituitary Gland Disorders and Treatments
• Succinate Dehydrogenase

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Literature Corpus work

33b3d605-411b-5588-b1a3-bc48888ce0a7

DOI

10.21203/rs.3.rs-2361854/v2