Risk of endocrine activation in interventions of paragangliomas in the head-neck area

The intracytoplasmatic glycolytic enzyme neuron-specific enolase (NSE) can be found in cells of endocrine tissue and their derived tumours. The enzyme is not secreted but released if cells are destroyed, i.e. continuously in malignant tumours. The serum level of neuron-specific enolase (NSE) has bee...

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