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VAGAL PARAGANGLIOMA PRESENTING AS JUGULAR FORAMEN SYNDROME

Muthukumar N, Mani Maran

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This paper presents a case of paraganglioma in-volving the vagus nerve presenting as jugular fo-ramen syndrome. These paragangliomas devel-op from paraganglia tissues which is distributed throughout the body. Commonly these tumors are found in the following areas:
Carotid body
Jugular bulb
Vagus nerve
Vagal paraganglioma usually arise from the infe-rior vagal ganglion (nodose). These are slow growing tumors and the effects of involvement of vagus nerve takes sometime to develop. This case was managed surgically.

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