Intrathoracic carotid-body tumour (chemodectoma).
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Intrathoracic carotid-body tumour (chemodectoma).
Tumours of the chemoreceptor organs of the neck, the carotid bodies, and the glomera jugulare are well-known lesions presenting as swellings in relation to the bifurcation of the carotid artery; by 1959 over 500 such tumours had been described in the world literature (Sessions, McSwain, Carl-son, and Scott, 1959). Similar tumours have, from time to time, been described in other parts of the bod...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Thorax
سال: 1966
ISSN: 0040-6376
DOI: 10.1136/thx.21.2.184