1 Jul 2000Article
Thyroid paraganglioma: report of a case and review of the literature
L. Napolitano 1F. o 1D. Angelucci 2A. o 1
Affiliations
Article Info
1 Department of Surgery, Chieti University
2 Department of Pathology, Chieti University (Italy)
Ann. Ital. Chir., 2000, 71(4), 511-514;
Published: 1 Jul 2000
Copyright © 2000 Annali Italiani di Chirurgia
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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
