Pulmonary paraganglioma: report of a case

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A case of pulmonary paraganglioma in a 32-year-old woman is presented. The tumor was adherent to the anteromedial basal segmental branch of the left pulmonary artery and had round groups of monotonous tumor cells with faintly eosinophilic and granular cytoplasm. Also tumor cells were divided into lobules by fine fibrous septae. The patient made an uneventful recovery and no recurrence of the lesion has occurred during the subsequent one year.