CASE PRESENTATION A 38-year-old woman initially presented with a 3-week history of decreased hearing in the left ear. Evaluationrevealedaleftserousotitismedia,withno evidenceofanasopharyngealmass.Shewastreated forallergicrhinitis,withsubsequentresolutionofher serous effusion. During the third trimester of her subsequent pregnancy, she noted a progressive globussensationandleft-sidedintermittent...

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, nasopharynx, larynx, vagal body and carot...

INTRODUCTION The carotid body tumour was first described by von Haller in 1743. The first two, unsuccessfully surgically treated carotid body tumours, were done by Reinger in 1880 (his patient died), and by Maydel in 1886 (his patient developed hemiplegia). Scudder made the first successful surgical removal of the carotid body tumour in 1903. Using data from the Cologne (Germany) Medline Resear...

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...