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Paraganglioma of the cervical sympathetic trunk
Wissenschaftlicher Artikel/Review - 01.12.2002
Birchler Manfred T, Landau Klara, Went Philip T, Stöckli Sandro
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We report the case of a 17-year-old man who presented with left-sided Horner's syndrome. Magnetic resonance imaging revealed a spindle-shaped cervical tumor in the left paravertebral space. During operation, a tumor originating from the left sympathetic trunk was found. The histopathologic analysis showed a sympathetic paraganglioma. The sympathetic trunk is an extremely rare location for a cervical paraganglioma; only a few cases have been reported in the literature.