Hostname: page-component-8448b6f56d-cfpbc Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-04-18T23:58:16.559Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Cauda Equina Paraganglioma

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 September 2015

Ming-Sound Tsao ,
Juan Bilbao ,
Peter Richardson  and
Morrison Finlayson
Ming-Sound Tsao*
Affiliation:
Department of Pathology, Neurology and Neurosurgery, Montréal General Hospital and McGill University
Juan Bilbao
Affiliation:
Department of Pathology, Neurology and Neurosurgery, Montréal General Hospital and McGill University
Peter Richardson
Affiliation:
Department of Pathology, Neurology and Neurosurgery, Montréal General Hospital and McGill University
Morrison Finlayson
Affiliation:
Department of Pathology, Neurology and Neurosurgery, Montréal General Hospital and McGill University
*
Department of Pathology, The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N.C. 27514, U.S.A.
Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Summary:

Core share and HTML view are not available for this content. However, as you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button.

Two paragangliomas resected from the cauda equina had similar morphology, both containing cells having dense core secretory granules with no associated sustentacular or supporting cells. The cells were arranged in characteristic lobules that were surrounded by basement membrane and separated by a fibrovascular stroma. This tumor, although rarely found elsewhere in the central nervous system, does occur in the region of the filum terminale, and causes a clinical syndrome typical of tumors in that area.

Type
Original Articles
Information
Canadian Journal of Neurological Sciences , Volume 10 , Issue 4 , November 1983 , pp. 266 - 269
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Neurological Sciences Federation 1983

References

Bilbao, J.M., Horvath, E., Kovacs, K., Singer, W., and Hudson, A.R. (1978). Intrasellar paraganglioma associated with hypopituitarism. Arch Pathol Lab Med 102, 95–98.Google ScholarPubMed
Binkley, W., Vakili, S.T., and Worth, R. (1982). Paraganglioma of the cauda equina. Case report. J Neurosurg 56, 275–279.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Bolande, R.P. (1974). The neurocristopathies: a unifying concept of disease arising in neural crest maldevelopment. Hum Pathol 5. 409–429.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Grimley, P.M.,andGlenner, G.G. (1967). Histology and ultrastructure of carotid body paraganglioma. Comparison with the normal gland. Cancer 20, 1473–1488.Google Scholar
Horoupian, D.S., Kerson, L.A., Saiontz, H., and Valsamis, M. (1974). Paraganglioma of the cauda equina. Clinicopathologic and ultra-structural studies of an unusual case. Cancer 33. 1337–1348.Google Scholar
Lack, E. E., Mercer, L. (1977). A modified Grimelius argyrophil technique for neurosecretory granules. Am J Surg Pathol 1. 275–277.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Lack, E.E., Cubilla, A.L., Woodruff, J.M., and Lieberman, P.H. (1980). Extra-adrenal paragangliomas of the retroperitoneum. A clinicopathologic study of 12 tumors. Am J Surg Pathol 4, 109–120.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Lagacé, R., Delage, C. and Gagné, F. (1978). Paraganglioma of the filum terminale. Can J Neurol Sci 5, 257–260.Google ScholarPubMed
Lazarides, E. (1980). Intermediate filaments as mechanical integrators of cellular space. Nature 283. 249–256.Google ScholarPubMed
Lerman, R.I., Kaplan, E.S., and Daman, L. (1972). Ganglioneuroma-paraganglioma of the intradural filum terminale. J Neurosurg 36, 652–658.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Llena, J.F., Hirano, A., and Rubin, R.C. (1979). Paraganglioma in the cauda equina region. Acta Neuropathol (Berl) 46. 235–237.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Llena, J.F., Wisoff, H.S., and Hirano, A. (1982). Gangliocytic paraganglioma in cauda equina region, with biochemical and neuropathological studies. J Neurosurg 56. 280–282.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Miller, C.A., and Torack, R.M. (1970). Secretory ependymoma of the filum terminale. Acta Neuropathol (Berl) 15, 240–250.Google ScholarPubMed
Said, S.I. (1976). Evidence for secretion of vasoactive intestinal peptide by tumors of pancreas, adrenal medulla, thyroid and lung: support for the unifying APUD concept. Clin Endocrinol (Oxf) 5, Suppl, 201s–204s.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Soffer, D., Pittaluga, S.,Caine, Y., Feinsod, M. (1983). Paraganglioma of cauda equina. Cancer 51, 1907–1910.3.0.CO;2-7>CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Taxy, J.B. (1983). Paraganglioma of the cauda equina. Cancer 51. 1904–1906.3.0.CO;2-J>CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
van Alphen, H.A.M., Bellot, S.M., and Stam, F.C. (1976). Paraganglioma of cauda equina. Clin Neurol Neurosurg 79, 316–322.CrossRefGoogle Scholar