Carotid Body Tumors

Carotid Body Tumors

İslam KAKLIKKAYA, Fahri ÖZCAN, *Mehmet İMAMOĞLU, *A. Ümit IŞIK

Karadeniz Teknik Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi, TRABZON, Göğüs Kalp ve Damar Cerrahisi Anabilim Dalı
^*Kulak Burun Boğaz Anabilim Dalı

The resection of carotid body tumors show difficulties due to their localization at cranial nerves and arteriae. Between 1994 and 1998, carotid body tumors were diagnosed in 5 patients (2 males and 3 females) aged between 18 and 55. Of these, 4 applied with complaining mass in the neck. The mass in one patient was detected during the operation of supraglottic larynx cancer. In one patient, X. and XII. cranial nerve paralysis developed after operation. This patient has been under control for two years. In another patient, XII. cranial nerve paralysis developed. This patients has also been under the control for one year. No neurologic deficiency has appeared in the remaining 3 patients.

The advances in vascular surgery techniques have reduced the risk of perioperative complications such as carotid injury, stroke and denth; but the risk at cranial nerve complication still remains.

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