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Five-year outcome of a staged giant Shamblin type III carotid body tumor excision
Journal of Vascular Surgery Cases and Innovative Techniques, 2023 Giant carotid body tumors, defined as those >8 cm in size, are extremely rare. Definitive surgical management is a complex undertaking because these large tumors tend to have grown to envelop cranial nerves and the carotid artery, and few data exist ...
James M. Dittman, MD +4 more
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Cascade of Complications Following Carotid Body Tumor Excision [PDF]
Neurointervention, 2021 Carotid body tumor excision can lead to various complications including vascular injury and pseudoaneurysm formation. Here we describe a case of carotid body tumor excision followed by series of complications including pseudoaneurysm formation, failure ...
Pawan K Garg +5 more
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مجلة كلية الطب, 2009 Summary Background:-Carotid body tumors is an uncommon disease entity in Iraq , presented with painless swelling below the angle of the mandible , and is usually benign .The author reviews his personal surgical challenge with eight cases having had ...
Waleed M. Hussen Hussen
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Bilateral Carotid Body Paraganglioma
Acta Médica Portuguesa, 2021 N/a.
Wasita Warachit +2 more
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THE GROSS AND MICROSCOPIC ANATOMY OF THE CAROTID BODY OF AN ENDOGENOUS DUCK
The Iraqi Journal of Veterinary Medicine, 1996 The carotid body in an endogenous duck was closely related to the ventral surface of the common carotid bifurcation zone caudal to the parathyroid glands. The carotid body was characterized by its compact and fusiform shape.
F. S. Mohammad +2 more
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Identification of Isocitrate Dehydrogenase 2 (IDH2) Mutation in Carotid Body Paraganglioma
Frontiers in Endocrinology, 2021 Carotid body paragangliomas (PGLs) are rare neuroendocrine tumors that develop within the adventitia of the medial aspect of the carotid bifurcation. Carotid body PGLs comprise about 65% of head and neck paragangliomas, however, their genetic background ...
Fengchao Lang +4 more
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Pathogenic Roles of the Carotid Body Inflammation in Sleep Apnea
Mediators of Inflammation, 2014 Breathing difficulties in sleep are a hallmark of sleep-disordered breathing commonly observed in patients with sleep disorders. The pathophysiology of sleep apnea is in part due to an augmented activity of the carotid body chemoreflex.
Man Lung Fung
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Parapharyngeal Neck Schwannomas with Unusual Vascular Displacement
Case Reports in Medicine, 2013 This case report illustrates two unusual cases of parapharyngeal schwannomas mimicking carotid body tumors in terms of characteristic vascular displacement.
Kiran Sargar
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Tissue-specific mitochondrial HIGD1C promotes oxygen sensitivity in carotid body chemoreceptors
eLife, 2022 Mammalian carotid body arterial chemoreceptors function as an early warning system for hypoxia, triggering acute life-saving arousal and cardiorespiratory reflexes. To serve this role, carotid body glomus cells are highly sensitive to decreases in oxygen
Alba Timón-Gómez +16 more
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A preliminary anatomical study on carotid body of Makouei sheep [PDF]
Veterinary Research Forum, 2013 The carotid is a small mass of chemoreceptor's and sustentacular cells that detects changes in the composition of the arterial blood. The aim of the present study was to identify the size, color, location, blood and nerve supply of the carotid body in ...
Gholamreza Najafi +2 more
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