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Carotid body tumor: characteristics and surgical outcome [PDF]

Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery
Background Carotid body tumors are uncommon neuroendocrine growths near the carotid bifurcation. While some advocate preoperative embolization to minimize bleeding, others avoid it due to complications. This study shares the experience of a single center
Fahmi Hussein Kakamad, Mihr Naif Mustafa, Shara Wahdaldeen Yasin, Shanga Sherzad Xalid, Ayoob A. Mohammed, Snur Othman, Dilan S. Hiwa, Hiwa O. Abdullah, Berun A. Abdalla, Hawkar A. Nasralla, Sasan M. Ahmed, Ayman M. Mustafa, Shko H. Hassan, Bushra O. Hussein   +13 more
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The effect of preoperative embolization on surgical outcomes for carotid body tumor resection

SAGE Open Medicine, 2021
Objective: Compare the effects of preoperative embolization for carotid body tumor resection on surgical outcomes to carotid body tumor resections without preoperative embolization.
Robin Osofsky, Ross Clark, Jaideep Das Gupta, Nathan Boyd, Garth Olson, LeAnn Chavez, Sundeep Guliani, Mark Langsfeld, John Marek, Muhammad Ali Rana   +9 more
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Mutational load in carotid body tumor

BMC Medical Genomics, 2019
Background Carotid body tumor (CBT) is a rare neoplasm arising from paraganglion located near the bifurcation of the carotid artery. There is great intra-tumor heterogeneity, and CBT development could be associated with both germline and somatic allelic ...
Anna V. Kudryavtseva, Elena N. Lukyanova, Dmitry V. Kalinin, Andrew R. Zaretsky, Anatoly V. Pokrovsky, Alexander L. Golovyuk, Maria S. Fedorova, Elena A. Pudova, Sergey L. Kharitonov, Vladislav S. Pavlov, Anastasiya A. Kobelyatskaya, Nataliya V. Melnikova, Alexey A. Dmitriev, Andrey P. Polyakov, Boris Y. Alekseev, Marina V. Kiseleva, Andrey D. Kaprin, George S. Krasnov, Anastasiya V. Snezhkina   +18 more
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Five-year outcome of a staged giant Shamblin type III carotid body tumor excision [PDF]

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, Basavaraj V. Ghodke, MD, Kris S. Moe, MD, Niten Singh, MD, Benjamin W. Starnes, MD, FACS   +4 more
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Exome analysis of carotid body tumor

BMC Medical Genomics, 2018
Background Carotid body tumor (CBT) is a form of head and neck paragangliomas (HNPGLs) arising at the bifurcation of carotid arteries. Paragangliomas are commonly associated with germline and somatic mutations involving at least one of more than thirty ...
Anastasiya V. Snezhkina, Elena N. Lukyanova, Dmitry V. Kalinin, Anatoly V. Pokrovsky, Alexey A. Dmitriev, Nadezhda V. Koroban, Elena A. Pudova, Maria S. Fedorova, Nadezhda N. Volchenko, Oleg A. Stepanov, Ekaterina A. Zhevelyuk, Sergey L. Kharitonov, Anastasiya V. Lipatova, Ivan S. Abramov, Alexander V. Golovyuk, Yegor E. Yegorov, Khava S. Vishnyakova, Alexey A. Moskalev, George S. Krasnov, Nataliya V. Melnikova, Dmitry S. Shcherbo, Marina V. Kiseleva, Andrey D. Kaprin, Boris Y. Alekseev, Andrew R. Zaretsky, Anna V. Kudryavtseva   +25 more
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Case Report: Managing a giant, high-grade carotid body tumor in a resource-limited setting [version 1; referees: 2 approved, 1 approved with reservations] [PDF]

F1000Research, 2017
Herein we report the management of a giant, high-grade and vascular carotid body tumor in a young woman. She presented with slowly progressive neck swelling. Vascular imaging revealed a left-sided, high-grade giant carotid body tumor (> 8cm).
Sunil Munakomi, Samrita Chaudhary, Iype Cherian   +2 more
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Paraganglioma: Carotid Body Tumor [PDF]

Head and Neck Pathology, 2009
Extra-adrenal paragangliomas are neoplasms of the paraganglia located within the paravertebral sympathetic and parasympathetic chains. Thus paragangliomas may arise anywhere along these tracts and common sites of occurrence include abdomen, retroperitoneum, chest and mediastinum and various head and neck locations such as jugulotympanic membrane, orbit,
AB Rao, Alice Smith, BE Baysal, E Edstrom Elder, HP Neumann, Jacqueline A. Wieneke, LDR Thompson, S Arya, WC Zhang, WR Shamblin   +9 more
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Bilateral carotid body tumor in a 13-year-old child: Our experience

Journal of Head & Neck Physicians and Surgeons, 2017
Carotid body tumors are rare neuroendocrine tumors derived from the extra-adrenal paraganglioma of the autonomic nervous system. Very few cases have been reported in literature in the pediatric age group
Abhijeet Singh, Anand Subash, Naresh Kumar Panda, Anand Kumar Mishra   +3 more
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Challenges in the Management of Massive Carotid Body Tumor [PDF]

Case Reports in Otolaryngology
The carotid body paraganglioma is a rare benign neoplasm arising from the chemoreceptor cells of the carotid bulb. The carotid body has the largest collection of paraganglia in the head and neck with 60–70% of head and neck paraganglioma. Paraganglia are
Oluwapelumi Olusoga-Peters, Moses Ayodele Akinola, John Ifeanyi Nwadiokwu, Florence Oguntade   +3 more
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Malignant carotid body tumor: a report of two cases. [PDF]

Ann Med Surg (Lond), 2023
Introduction and importance: Carotid body tumors (CBT) are neoplasms that originate from chemoreceptors of the carotid body. They are neuroendocrine tumors that are usually benign but may have malignant potential. Malignancy is diagnosed with evidence of
Alfawaz AA, Albloushi D, Quttaineh D, Alsafran S, AlQabandi O, Albader M.   +5 more
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