Spinal cord paraganglioma: A case report
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Paraganglioma arising in spinal cord is rare case. The patient was a 52-year-old male who complained of low back pain for one month. Lumbar myelographic study revealed an intradural extramedullary mass at L1-2 level that was diagnosed clinically as neurilemmoma. Laminectomy with tumor removal operation yielded a 2.5x2x1.8 cm cell circumscribed soft mass with grayish-white and hemorrhagic cut surface. The tumor composed histologically of uniform cells and numerous delicate capillary networks that resemble both ependymoma and paraganglioma. The tumor cells immunoriacted with chromogranin and neuron-specific enorase so that it was called ‘paraganglioma’, finally. Immunohistochemistry was very useful in diagnosis of this entity.
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