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 our pa...

Carotid body tumors typically arise at the level of the common carotid bifurcation where the carotid body exists. Superior and inferior extension beyond the carotid body may occur as well, especially if the tumor is long-standing. We herein describe a case of carotid body tumor in a patient who presented with a right-sided neck mass for 30 years. Computed tomography angiography (CTA) and B-mode...

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...

A 45-year old female referred for a large carotid body tumor resection. The tumor was encasing the internal (ICA) and external carotid arteries (ECA). She underwent angiogram and embolization of the ascending pharyngeal artery and a distal branch of the ECA using ethylene vinyl-alcohol copolymer (EVOH). Two days later, surgical resection of the tumor with regional lymph node dissection was perf...