Journal article
Anterior and middle mediastinum paraganglioma: Complete resection is the treatment of choice
Abstract
Paraganglioma of the mediastinum is described to be an indolent and slow-growing tumor. After a patient presented to our center, we reviewed the world literature to evaluate the prognosis of this tumor. This review showed that paragangliomas are locally invasive and have a high local recurrence rate (44/79 or 55.7%) with a true metastatic capacity (21/79 or 26.6%). The overall survival is 62.0% (49/79), but only 36.7% (29/79) of patients could …
Authors
Lamy AL; Fradet GJ; Luoma A; Nelems B
Journal
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery, Vol. 57, No. 1, pp. 249–252
Publisher
Elsevier
Publication Date
January 1994
DOI
10.1016/0003-4975(94)90419-7
ISSN
0003-4975