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A rare mediastinal paraganglioma arising from the right ventricular outflow tract was successfully diagnosed and surgically resected in a 50-year-old man.
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This case demonstrates the utility of multimodality imaging in diagnosing and planning the surgical resection of a rare mediastinal paraganglioma arising from the right ventricular outflow tract.
CT assessment of fat planes and coronaries guides resectability of RVOT masses; leaves open standardized protocols for incidental cardiac tumors.
A 50-year-old man presented to the hospital for workup of a symptomatic inguinal hernia. At presurgical workup, findings from a contrast material–enhanced CT of the chest, abdomen, and pelvis revealed a large, well-defined and enhancing middle mediastinal mass arising from the right ventricular outflow tract. The mass was ultimately deemed resectable due to preserved fat planes between the mass and other mediastinal structures and the preservation of the right and left coronary arteries. The tumor was diagnosed as a mediastinal paraganglioma at histologic assessment.
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Landreth et al. (2021) conducted a case report in Mediastinal paraganglioma (n=1). Surgical resection was evaluated. A rare mediastinal paraganglioma arising from the right ventricular outflow tract was successfully diagnosed and surgically resected in a 50-year-old man.
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