A 36 year old woman came with complaints of headache since six days
There is an ill-defined, lobulated, heterogeneously arterially enhancing lesion in the left para-aortic region at L2-L3 vertebral level. The lesion is located just cranial to the origin of IMA (organ of Zuckerkandl)
The organ of Zuckerkandl is named after Emil Zuckerkandl, an Austrian anatomist and pathologist. In 1901, he first described the abdominal para-aortic paraganglia