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encyclopedia of Rare Disease Annotation for Precision Medicine




Disease paraganglioma
Comorbidity C0031511|pheochromocytoma
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PubMedID- 25918656 pheochromocytoma, along with paraganglioma, is a chromaffin neuroendocrine tumor that secretes catecholamine, which mostly manifests characteristic symptoms including headache, hypertension, and palpitation.
PubMedID- 22571874 4).figure 5a 35-year-old woman with a paternal family history of pheochromocytoma was initially diagnosed with paraganglioma at the base of the bladder causing left hydronephrosis and hypertension for which she underwent partial cystectomy and resection of the mass.
PubMedID- 25275255 pheochromocytoma may coexist with paraganglioma and when paraganglioma is diagnosed, the patient should be screened for pheochromocytoma too, especially in people with hypertension.

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