Abstract
A patient in their 30s presented with chronic right upper quadrant abdominal pain, nausea, bloating, and constipation. Her clinical exam was unremarkable, and computed tomography (CT) of the chest and abdomen which showed a large right-sided thoracic mass with extension into the thoracic spinal canal. A needle biopsy revealed a diagnosis of ganglioneuroma, the patient then underwent a combined approach for excision the tumor. Ganglioneuroma is a neuroblastic tumor of a neural crest origin, it originates from paravertebral sympathetic chain ganglia of the posterior mediastinum or retroperitoneum. They usually extend through neuroforamina to involve the epidural space and surgical excision can be curative.
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