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organ of Zuckerkandl


para-aortic chromaffin body

  • adjacent to abdominal sympathetic plexus
  • site: aortic bifurcation or IMA origin

  • most common extra-adrenal site of pheochromocytoma


Charles E. Kahn, Jr., MD  -  2 February 1995
Last updated:  1 September 2006


 

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