Carotid Paraganglioma in Adolescence-Clinical Picture-Surgical Technique and Review of the Literature

Figure 4

Histopathological appearance of CBP (16-year-old teenage girl) showing “zellballen” growth pattern of paragangliomas with central round/oval chief cells containing abundant eosinophilic granular or vacuolated cytoplasm, uniform nuclei with dispersed chromatin-nests of cells (blue arrow). Prominent fibrovascular stroma separates nests (black arrow).