An Unexpected Diagnosis

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Introduction: Paragangliomas (PGL) are defined as rare tumors arising from extra-adrenal sympathetic and parasympathetic paraganglia and malignant paragangliomas are defined by the presence of metastases.

Aim(s): We report a case of an unexpected diagnosis of intrapancreatic paraganglioma. Pancreatic localization has been rarely reported in the literature.

Materials and methods: A normotensive 63-year-old woman was referred to us for an incidentally discovered pancreatic mass. Enhanced-CT showed a 18 mm pancreatic head mass suspected for endocrine tumor. Biochemical markers were normal as well as Octreoscan. 18FDG-PET showed hypercaptation in the pancreatic head region (SUV 33). The patient underwent a duodenocephalopancreasectomy.

Conference: 8th Annual ENETSConcerence (2011)

Presenting Author:

Authors: Rebellato A, Zanchetta E, Calcagno A, De Carlo E, Maffei P,

Keywords: paraganglioma syndrome, pancreas,