Abstract:Purpose . Starting from the description of two interesting cases, we wondered to review the literature on pelvic and bladder paragangliomas (PGLs) in order to illustrate clinical characteristics and current management, lightening the needed of a prompt diagnosis to avoid the onset of several complications. Although PGLs may arise at any site where physiologically chromaffin tissue exists, pelvic origins are not frequent (less than 2%), and the most common localization is the retroperitoneal space, whereas blad… Show more
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