Thyroid paraganglioma: report of a case and review of the literature
L. Napolitano 1, F. Francomano 1, D. Angelucci 2, A.M. Napolitano 1
Affiliations
Article Info
1 Department of Surgery, Chieti University
2 Department of Pathology, Chieti University (Italy)
Abstract
A case of thyroid paraganglioma is reported. Immunohistochemically the tumor showed negativity for thyroglobulin and calcitonin and positivity for chromogranin A and S-100. Protein positive sustentacular cells were demonstrated. The authors discuss the previous literature on these tumors.
Keywords
- Thyroid paraganglioma
- paraganglioma
- rare thyroid tumor