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Majority of the cerebellopontine angle (CPA) tumors are acoustic neuromas, while bulk of the non-acoustic tumors are formed by meningiomas and epidermoid cysts. Primary paraganglioma is a rare tumor in this location, with only two such cases having been reported in the literature, till date. Recently, a case has been described wherein a paraganglioma was apparently arising as a primary lesion in the cerebellar hemisphere. We report another case of an intracranial paraganglioma of the CPA in a 40-year-old female, which did not have any vascular attachment but had focal cerebellar extension.
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Deb, P., Sharma, M.C., Gaikwad, S. et al. Cerebellopontine angle paraganglioma – report of a case and review of literature. J Neurooncol 74, 65–69 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11060-004-5952-0
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