Investigative Magnetic Resonance Imaging

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Pancreatic Paraganglioma: a Case Report and Literature Review

  • Park, Joon Suk (Department of Radiology, Hallym University Dongtan Sacred Heart Hospital) ;
  • Min, Seon Jeong (Department of Radiology, Hallym University Dongtan Sacred Heart Hospital) ;
  • Min, Soo Kee (Department of Pathology, Hallym University Sacred Heart Hospital) ;
  • Choi, Jung-Ah (Department of Radiology, Hallym University Dongtan Sacred Heart Hospital)
  • Received : 2021.01.02
  • Accepted : 2021.02.05
  • Published : 2021.03.30
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Abstract

Paraganglioma is a rare tumor of paraganglia, derived from neural crest cells in sympathetic or parasympathetic ganglions. It can be widely distributed from the skull base to the bottom of the pelvis. The pancreas, however, is a rare location of this neoplasm, and only a limited number of cases have been reported in the English literature, especially with gadoxetic-acid-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and diffusion-weighted images (DWI). We herein report a case of pathologically proven paraganglioma in the pancreas head with a literature review on endoscopic ultrasonography (EUS), computed tomography (CT), gadoxetic-acid-enhanced MRI, and DWI sequence.

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