Pancreatic paraganglioma diagnosed by endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine needle aspiration: A case report and review of literature

Table 1 Reported cases of pancreatic paraganglioma in the literature

No.	Ref.	Age	Gender	Size	Location	EUS-FNA	Preop-diagnosis	Surgery	Postop diagnosis
1	Fujino et al[21]	61	Male	2.5 cm	Uncinate process	No	PNET	Pancreaticoduodenectomy	PPGL
2	Ohkawara et al[33]	72	Female	4 cm	Head	No	NET	Surgical resection of head	PPGL
3	Perrot et al[34]	41	Female	4.3 cm	Tail	No	PPGL	Tumor resection	PPGL
4	Tsukada et al[35]	51	Male	2.5 cm	Uncinate	No	PNET	Surgical resection	PPGL
5	Kim et al[12]	57	Female	7 cm	Head	No	Non-functioning islet cell tumor	Pancreaticoduodenectomy	PPGL
6	Paik[36]	70	Female	4.2 cm	Tail	No	None	Distal pancreatectomy	PPGL
7	He et al[37]	40	Female	4.5 cm	Uncinate	No	None	Surgical resection	PPGL
8	Higa and Kapur[38]	65	Female	2.1 cm	Uncinate	No	None	Pancreaticoduodenectomy	PPGL
9	Al-jiffry et al[39]	19	Female	9.5 cm	Head and neck	No	Sarcoma	Pancreaticoduodenectomy	PPGL
10	Zhang et al[27]	50	Female	6 cm	Head	Yes	Functional PPGL	Chemotherapy	PPGL
11	Zhang et al[27]	63	Female	4 cm	Head	No	Functional PPGL	Surgical resection	PPGL
12	Borgohain et al[40]	55	Female	19 cm	Tail	No	Pancreatic cancer	Surgical resection	PPGL
13	Straka et al[41]	53	Female	Not mentioned	Head	No	None	Surgical resection	PPGL
14	Meng et al[11]	54	Female	3 cm	Head	No	None	Surgical resection	PPGL
15	Meng et al[11]	41	Female	6.2 cm	Head	No	None	Surgical resection	PPGL
16	Misumi et al[42]	47	Female	1.5 cm	Head	EUS only	PNET	Pancreaticoduodenectomy	PPGL
17	Bartley et al[43]	75	Female	15 cm	Tail	No	Pancreatic cyst	Not available	PPGL
18	Bartley et al[43]	70	Female	3 cm	Head	No	Pancreatic cyst	Not available	PPGL
19	Cope et al[44]	72	Female	14 cm	Head	No	Cystadenoma	Not available	PPGL
20	Zamir et al[45]	47	Male	10 cm	Body	No	Pancreatic cyst	Not available	PPGL
21	Parithivel et al[46]	85	Male	6 cm	Head	No	NET	Surgical resection	PPGL
22	Wang et al[32]	30	Female	6.4 cm	Tail	No	None	No surgery	PPGL
23	Ganc et al[18]	37	Female	4.8 cm	Head	Yes	NET	Pancreatico duodenectomy	PPGL
24	Tumuluru et al[47]	62	Female	2.9 cm	Body	Yes	NET	Distal pancreatectomy/splenectomy	PPGL
25	Ginesu et al[48]	55	Male	2.5 cm	Uncinate	No	NET	pancreaticoduodenectomy	PPGL
26	Liang and Xu[6]	41	Male	6.4 cm	Uncinate	No	NET	pancreaticoduodenectomy	PPGL
27	Lin et al[3]	42	Female	6.3 cm	Body	No	NET	Middlesegment pancreatectomy	PPGL
28	Nguyen et al[23]	70	Female	5.8 cm	Tail	Yes	PPGL	Surgical resection	PPGL
29	Zeng et al[19]	58	Female	6.5 cm	Head	Yes	NET	Surgical resection	PPGL
30	Zeng et al[19]	53	Female	2.5 cm	Head	Yes	NET	Surgical resecion	PPGL
31	Singhi et al[16]	61	Female	14 cm	Tail	Yes	Pseudocyst	Surgical resection	PPGL
32	Singhi et al[16]	52	Female	14 cm	Body	Yes	PPGL	Not performed	PPGL
33	Singhi et al[16]	54	Female	6.5 cm	Head	Yes	PPGL	Surgical resection	PPGL
34	Singhi et al[16]	40	Male	5.1 cm	Body	Yes	NET	Surgical resection	PPGL
35	Singhi et al[16]	78	Female	17 cm	Body	Yes	Spindle cell neoplasm	Surgical resection	PPGL
36	Singhi et al[16]	44	Male	5.5 cm	Head	Yes	PPGL	Surgical resection	PPGL
37	Singhi et al[16]	38	Male	15 cm	Body	No	None	Surgical resection	PPGL
38	Singhi et al[16]	47	Male	7.5 cm	Body	No	NET	Surgical resection	PPGL
39	Singhi et al[16]	37	Female	5.7 cm	Tail	No	NET	Surgical resection	PPGL
40	Fite and Maleki[49]	40	Male	5.1 cm	Peripancreatic	No	NET	Surgical resection	PPGL
41	Fite and Maleki[49]	23	Female	7.0 cm	Peripancreatic	No	NET	Surgical resection	PPGL
42	Malthouse et al[50]	58	Male	8 cm	Head	No	NET	Not available	PPGL
43	Malthouse et al[50]	45	Female	8 cm	Head	No	Retro peritoneal tumor	Not available	PPGL
44	Sangster et al[10]	50	Male	Not available	Head	Yes	Poorly differentiatedcarcinoma	Radiation treatment	PPGL
45	Lightfoot et al[51]	66	Male	6 cm	Head/uncinate	No	None	Pancreaticoduodenectomy	PPGL
46	Abbasi et al[52]	61	Female	7.2 cm	Head/uncinate	Yes	NET	Pancreaticoduodenenctomy	PPGL
47	Present case	73	Female	2 cm	Head	Yes	PPGL	No surgery	PPGL

PPGL: Pancreatic paraganglioma; PNET: Pancreatic Neuroendocrine tumor; EUS-FNA: Endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine needle aspiration.