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Introducing the diagnostic protocol and therapy of a rare disease reviewing the worldwide literature named as vagal paraganglioma is our main target. This type is specific for women of middle age, and it is appearing as a unilateral neck mass, with or without Fontaine's sign. Giving a heavy aspect on the ear, nose and throat examination, the most important diagnostic tool is CT-angiography. Carefully looking at the size and relationship with the narrowing arteries, veins, nerves, muscles and bony structures (skull base, cervical spine), in most of the cases we choose the surgical procedure. Orv Hetil. 2019; 160(34): 1358-1362.

Paragangliomas of the head and neck are rare vascular skull-base tumors derived from the paraganglionic system with an estimated incidence of 1:30,000 accounting for 3% of all paragangliomas. The most common paraganglioma locations of the head and neck in descending order are the carotid body, jugular, tympanic, and vagal paragangliomas. This article discusses the clinical characterics, normal anatamy, imaging findings and protocols, pathology, staging, and differential diagnosis for paragangliomas of the head and neck., (Copyright © 2016 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.)

There is emerging evidence linking cyanotic heart disease and pheochromocytoma-paraganglioma through a proposed hypoxia pathway. We present a 59-year-old woman with known Eisenmenger syndrome secondary to delayed diagnosis of ventricular septal defect, in whom F-FDG PET/CT provided comprehensive evaluation of both an F-FDG-avid left glomus vagale paraganglioma and also increased right ventricular myocardial glucose metabolism in response to severe pulmonary hypertension in the chronic shunting state.