Aortic body tumors.

Aortic body tumors in dogs

Aortic body tumor in a duck.

A chemodectoma of the aortic body was found at the base of heart of a Brahminy duck (Tadornaferruginea), It incorporated aorta and pulmonary artery at their emergence, part of vagus nerve, sympathetic ganglion, and thyroid gland. The tumor cells had infiltrated the local lymphatics only. Tumors of aortic and carotid bodies are rare and have been reported mainly in man [4] and dog [1,3,6], altho...

Novel Application of Tissue Doppler Imaging

Tissue Doppler imaging was used with transthoracic and transesophageal echocardiography to determine its clinical usefulness beyond visualization of ventricular wall motion. Thirteen novel applications were found: acoustically difficult transthoracic studies, thrombus, mitral chordal motion, shunt detection using saline contrast, spontaneous echo contrast, intra-aortic balloon pump position and...

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...

Asthma mimic: Case report and literature review of vocal cord nodule associated with wheezing

Asthma is a heterogeneous disease, usually characterized by chronic airway inflammation. Various clinical conditions can mimic asthma, such as foreign body aspiration, subglottic stenosis, congestive heart failure, diffuse panbronchiolitis, aortic arch anomalies, reactive airway dysfunction syndrome, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, retrosternal goiter, vocal cord tumors, other airway tum...