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Cerebellopontine angle paraganglioma - report of a case and review of literature.

Deb P, Sharma MC, Gaikwad S, Gupta A, Mehta VS, Sarkar C

Department of Pathology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), Ansari Nagar, 110029, New Delhi, India.

Majority of the cerebellopontine angle (CPA) tumors are acoustic neuromas, while bulk of the non-acoustic tumors are formed by meningiomas and epidermoid cysts. Primary paraganglioma is a rare tumor in this location, with only two such cases having been reported in the literature, till date. Recently, a case has been described wherein a paraganglioma was apparently arising as a primary lesion in the cerebellar hemisphere. We report another case of an intracranial paraganglioma of the CPA in a 40-year-old female, which did not have any vascular attachment but had focal cerebellar extension.

Published 3 August 2005 in J Neurooncol, 74(1): 65-9.
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