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Question 968

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Which is NOT TRUE of head and neck paragangliomas?

arise from non-chromaffin paraganglion cells

high uptake on nuclear medicine somatostatin receptor functional scans

malignant transformation is more common in a glomus vagale than in a carotid body tumour

more common in males

multiple paragangliomas are found in 25% of cases

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