ea0099p300 | Endocrine-Related Cancer | ECE2024
Vaca Ximena Carolina Vivas
, Delgado Gomez Manuel Miguel
, Herrero Ruiz Ana
, Valverde Marquez Alvaro
, Sanchez Velasco Adriana Sofia
, Mories Alvarez Maria Teresa
Introduction: Paragangliomas (PGLs) are rare neuroendocrine tumors that arise from sympathetic or parasympathetic extra-adrenal paraganglia. PGLs have an extremely variable clinical presentation, depending on the localization, tumor size, catecholamine production, compressive symptoms, etc. Germline mutations in PGLs are associated in 30-35% of patients. Mutation in genes encoding the subunits of succinate dehydrogenase (SDH) leads to an increased risk of metastasis, specially...