Cardiac Paraganglioma: Multimodality Imaging of a Rare Tumor

Alexandros P Patrianakos; Dimitrios Iliopoulos; Maria Marketou; Emmanouil I Skalidis; Fragiskos I Parthenakis

doi:10.1016/j.jaccas.2020.11.047

Cardiac Paraganglioma: Multimodality Imaging of a Rare Tumor

JACC Case Rep. 2021 Feb 17;3(2):273-275. doi: 10.1016/j.jaccas.2020.11.047. eCollection 2021 Feb.

Authors

Alexandros P Patrianakos¹, Dimitrios Iliopoulos², Maria Marketou¹, Emmanouil I Skalidis¹, Fragiskos I Parthenakis¹

Affiliations

¹ Cardiology Department, University Hospital, Heraklion, Crete, Greece.
² Ygeia Hospital, Athens Greece.

Abstract

Paragangliomas are rare tumors of chromaffin cells arising from an extra-adrenal location. Unlike pheochromocytomas, they are seldom functional. We present a case of pericardial paraganglioma incidentally encountered on an echocardiographic study, focusing on the characteristic features the tumor demonstrates on different imaging modalities. (Level of Difficulty: Intermediate.).

Keywords: computed tomography; coronary angiography; echocardiography; nuclear medicine imaging.