Radiation-Induced Malignant Peripheral Nerve Sheath Tumor of the Vagus Nerve Following Radiation Treatment of Cervical Paraganglioma

Abstract

Radiation-induced sarcoma is a known but rare complication of radiation treatment for skull base paraganglioma. We present the cases of a female patient with multiple paraganglioma syndrome treated with external beam radiation treatment who presented 4 years later with a malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor of the vagus nerve.

Keywords

• paraganglioma
• radiation
• vagus nerve
• malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor
• radiation-induced sarcoma
• glomus vagale