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CAROTID BODY TUMORS OUR EXPERIENCE WITH 20 PATIENTS
In this report of 20 patients with 24 carotid body tumors which is the largest series reported so far from Iran, we have evaluated the various characteristics of this relatively rare tumor in our population and compared our results with that of the literature. Although the prevalence of the tumor is cited to be equal among both sexes, we found a female to male ratio of 2.3 to I, as 14 of o...
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OBJECTIVE To study the diagnosis and therapy of carotid body tumors. METHOD A total of 44 patients with carotid body tumors were received and cured in people's hospital of Wuhan University from 1990 to 2010. Two of them were bilateral carotid body tumor patients. The operation were performed in all patients to remove the tumors. Among these patients, 39 of them were undertaken only tumor rese...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: American Journal of Roentgenology
سال: 1965
ISSN: 0361-803X,1546-3141
DOI: 10.2214/ajr.95.3.769