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Case reports

Right atrial paraganglioma: an unusual primary cardiac tumour

^a Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, St. James Hospital, Dublin 8, Ireland
^b Department of Histopathology, St. James Hospital, Dublin 8, Ireland

Received 16 January 2008; received in revised form 21 February 2008; accepted 24 February 2008.

^_* Corresponding author. Tel.: +353 1 4103389; fax: +353 1 4103390. (Email: kennellyrory{at}yahoo.ie).

We present a case of an unusual presentation of a rare primary cardiac tumour. There are no more than 50 previously reported cases of primary cardiac paraganglioma in the world literature and only a small proportion of these involve the right side of the heart. Diagnosis is difficult and surgical management is varied and complex.

Key Words: Cardiac • Cardiac tumour • Paraganglioma