Resection of a Large Carotid Paraganglioma in Carney-Stratakis Syndrome: A Multidisciplinary Feat

Why This Case Is Important

This will be freely available online. Up to summarising the case presentation and outcome. We need a good flavour of the case – emphasise the learning points.

Why you think this case is important – why did you write it up?

• Why is the case of interest to our readers?
• Is this a prevalent health problem?
• Is there a clear message?

Presenting features, medical/social/family history. This is the patient’s story – but please be sensitive to patient confidentiality.

How did they present?

What is the relevant history?

Why is this relevant?

Explain your findings and how they influenced your decisions Do not use abbreviations for diseases or investigations.

If relevant. All investigations that create a background (baseline) picture are relevant. All investigations that are crucial to management decisions should be discussed in full. Chose appropriate images and videos to illustrate your point (maintaining patient confidentiality Differential diagnosis.

If relevant. Please don’t list these. What we want to see is how the final diagnosis is teased out. What are the consequences to management or treatment for the differential diagnoses? For example: A man in his 60s who has smoked for 40 years and presents with epigastric pain radiating posteriorly may have a leaking abdominal aortic aneurysm, acute pancreatitis or a perforated duodenal ulcer. Particular historical details and investigations separate these diagnoses, and treatment of each is vastly different; indeed, treating one cause for the other is detrimental. Discuss these and the pitfalls that may ensue.

If relevant. Include pharmacological and nonpharmacological, e.g., surgery, physiotherapy, supportive care.

Always include follow up data where you can; it gives readers a clear understanding of outcome. The follow-up period should be defined. Please state if the patient has died even if not directly related to your case.

Include a very brief review of similar published cases. This is the opportunity to describe mechanismsof injury, guidelines and their relevance, diagnostic pathways (use diagrams if you like) and the points of interest of the case. A brief summary of relevant clinical guidelines is appropriate.

• Did you have to make an exception?
• Did you have to adapt the guidelines?

This is a required field. These are the most crucial part of the case – what do you want readers to remember when seeing their own patients?

“Resection of a large carotid paraganglioma in Carney-Stratakis syndrome: a multidisciplinary feat”Rebecca Spenser Nicholas, Ayyaz Quddus, Charlotte; Topham, Daryll Baker-Published:

- You need to write to the third person. Avoid writing in lists

- Avoid using unassay information

- Avoid repetition

- The body of the case report should make a story with a logical flow.

- Be clear about when you are taking about history and don’t mix history with the diagnosis.

- Academic integrity was a problem with a lot of assignments. Please. ensure that there are no copied sections from your assignment and that all references are included appropriately as Vancouver