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Dr. Andrew Rynne
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Dr. Andrew Rynne

Family Physician

Exp 50 years

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Dr. Shanthi.E
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Dr. Shanthi.E

General & Family Physician

Exp 17 years

Dr. Saisudha Kotla
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Dr. Saisudha Kotla

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Dr. Nagamani Ng

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Dr. Dorina Gurabardhi

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Dr.Raju

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Dr. Vaishalee Punj
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Dr. Vaishalee Punj

General & Family Physician

Exp 16 years

Carotid Body Paraganglioma

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Dr. Kathy Robinson MD

Hello, I am scheduled for an CT/PET scan tomorrow morning for possible paraganglioma because of 3 24hr urine tests showing my adrenaline hormones being 5x higher then average. but Monday I had an ... View answer

Answered by : Dr. Kathy Robinson ( General & Family Physician)
Dr. Shehzad Topiwala MD

637. i think i may have pheochromocytoma or paraganglioma . most docs have given up on me but have ... View answer

Answered by : Dr. Shehzad Topiwala ( Endocrinologist)
Dr.  Behar Greca MD

with resection and chemo therapy about 8 yrs ago. I do have another paraganglioma in right neck area ... have a history of bilateral carotid body tumors as a teen with subsequent surgery at the Mayo... View answer

Answered by : Dr. Behar Greca ( General & Family Physician)
Dr. Dipanjan Majumder MD

I have been advised that my "right carotid bulb has less that 50% diameter stenosis: and "nestled at the bifurcation is a carotid body tumor 2.6 x 2.2 x 1.3 cm XXXXXXX I have been told that this is ... View answer

Answered by : Dr. Dipanjan Majumder ( Oncologist)
Dr. Sudhir Kumar MD

. but just found an old report back in dec. 09... i was in Arz. had some issues. they did a Carotid Sonogram report, I see that he replorted an incidental 8mm x6mm left carotid body turmor... that is... View answer

Answered by : Dr. Sudhir Kumar ( Neurologist)

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Dr.  Manish Kumar Gupta MD

Dear Dr. this is Rasha from Egypt i just want to ask you something i have Paraganglioma in my back.Is there any cure for it.as i made 2 operations here in Egypt but the doctors are so confused about ... View answer

Answered by : Dr. Manish Kumar Gupta ( General Surgeon)
Dr.   Parth Goswami MD

it is a carotid body paraganglioma. Maybe I ll just wait a few more days and see. ... tenderness along my right carotid artery along with some mild swelling, mostly at the bifurcation,... View answer

Answered by : Dr. Parth Goswami ( Pathologist and Microbiologist)
Dr.  Ivan Rommstein MD

[When is an IVC filter necessary for surgery? My daughter is having surgery to remove a paraganglomia near her liver. My daughter has a blood clotting discorder of factor 5 and low protein s. She has not had any clots nor... View answer

Answered by : Dr. Ivan Rommstein ( General Surgeon)
Dr.   Esmeralda  Sera MD

my son just had a paraganglioma removed from his spine on January 18th. For the past 8 days he was in the hospital with fever chills low white blood count(1.8) and high liver count (thought to be ... View answer

Answered by : Dr. Esmeralda Sera ( Oncologist)
Dr. Akhtarhusian GHAUSI MD

Hx of cardiac paraganglioma. 35 years old. Current left adrenal adenoma. Recent CT with contrast found posterior Level 5 lymph node swollen to 9mm (3mm in July s scan). There are also several more ... View answer

Answered by : Dr. Akhtarhusian GHAUSI ( General & Family Physician)