Our experience in the diagnosis and treatment of carotid body tumors

Gökhan İlhan,

doi:10.5606/tgkdc.dergisi.2013.6541

Gökhan İlhan¹, Şahin Bozok¹, Berkan Özpak², Tevfik Güneş², Orhan Gökalp², Serdar Bayrak², Murat Aksun³, Ali Gürbüz²

¹Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Medical Faculty of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan University, Rize, Turkey
²Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Medical Faculty of Katip Çelebi University, İzmir Atatürk Training and Research Hospital, İzmir, Turkey
³Department of Anesthesiology and Reanimation, Medical Faculty of Katip Çelebi University, İzmir Atatürk Training and Research Hospital, İzmir, Turkey

DOI : 10.5606/tgkdc.dergisi.2013.6541

Paragangliomas are rare asymptomatic painless tumors, originating from paraganglionic bodies of autonomous nerve system of the embriological neural crest and increasing gradually. Despite their gradual developing nature, it is critical to reach early diagnosis and tailor surgical plan for carotid body tumors due to their potential of being malignant and local aggressive development, as well as invasion or pressure on the adjacent vascular and neural tissues. In this article, we present seven cases who were admitted with the complaints of pain and swelling in the neck and were diagnosed with carotid body tumor based on the further investigations and were surgically treated in the light of literature review and different surgical modalities were discussed.

Keywords : Carotid body tumor; diagnosis; surgery; treatment

Viewed : 10919

Downloaded : 2868