Literature survey on epidemiology and pathology of gangliocytic paraganglioma

Table 1 Duodenal gangliocytic paraganglioma with lymph node metastasis

Reference	Year	Age (years)	Sex	Chief Clinical presentation	Size (mm)	Operation	Follow up (months)
Buchler et al. [50].	1985	50	Male	Gastrointestinal bleeding	30	Surgical intervention	NED 20
Inai et al. [51].	1989	17	Male	Hematoemesis	20	PD	NED 32
Hashimoto et al. [52].	1992	47	Male	Incidental findings	65	PD	NED 14
Takabayashi et al. [53].	1993	63	Female	Abdominal pain	32	PPPD	NED 24
Dookhan et al. [24].	1993	41	Male	Abdominal pain	25	Additional surgical intervention	Recurrence 11 years after first surgical intervention
Sundararajan et al. [54].	2003	67	Female	Incidental findings	50	PD	NED 9
Bucher et al. [55].	2004	31	Female	Anemia, subclinical jaundice	30	PPPD	NED 44
Wong et al. [25].	2005	49	Female	Melena	14	PPPD	NED 12
Witkiewicz et al. [36].	2007	38	Female	Abdominal pain	15	PPPD	NR
Mann et al. [56].	2009	17	Female	Abdominal pain, vomiting, weight loss	NR	PPPD	NR
Okubo et al. [6]	2010	61	Male	Epigastralgia, tarry stool	30	PPPD	NED 6
Saito et al. [46].	2010	28	Male	Gastrointestinal bleeding, anemia	17	PD	NED 12

NR: not reported, PD: pancreatoduodenectomy, PPPD: pylorus-preserving pancreaticoduodenectomy
NED: no evidence of disease
There were twelve cases of gangliocytic paraganglioma with lymph node metastasis.

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