2012 Volume 58 Issue 1 Pages 65-68
We herein report a case of right carotid body paraganglioma that gave rise to metastases in the pulmonary parenchyma in a 43-year-old female. She had undergone a resection of a carotid body paraganglioma in 2003, which had no apparent histological features of malignancy. In 2005, multiple pulmonary nodules were detected during a routine examination. After careful follow-up for five years, Computed Tomography (CT) guided needle biopsy was performed, which revealed that the pulmonary nodules were metastases from the carotid body paraganglioma. Long-term follow-up is recommended for paragangliomas, since metastasis or local recurrence has been difficult to predict accurately using only histological evidence.
