Background Carotid body paragangliomas are rare, usually benign, tumors arising from
glomus cells of the carotid body. Bilateral involvement is present in∼ 5% of sporadic cases …

Materials and Methods Four thousand four hundred sixty patients were treated at the
outpatient oncology head and neck clinic between 1962 and 1983; 47.7% were men, with a …

• The medical records of 64 patients with paraganglioma of the head and neck seen
between 1954 and 1984 at the University of Texas MD Anderson Hospital, Houston, were …

Carotid body tumors seem to be encountered more frequently in people living at high
altitudes. Twenty lesions operated in 19 patients at a general hospital in Quito, Ecuador over …

Vagal paragangliomas are rare tumors of neural crest origin: fewer than 175 cases have
been reported in the English literature. This slow-growing tumor occurs most often at the …

Carotid body tumors (CBTs) are rare, usually benign, neoplasms of the extra-adrenal
paraganglion system. They are almost always nonfunctional. The diagnosis is generally …

The carotid body paraganglioma is a rare tumor that arises from the autonomic nervous
chemoreceptor. It can be diagnosed by contrast angiography. A patient in whom a carotid …

В обзоре освещены вопросы терминологии, классификации, диагностики (в том числе
и дифференциальной) гломусных опухолей, современные тенденции в лечении, как в …

Abstract   A relatively rare case of chemodectoma of the glomus jugulare with multiple
metastases is reported. Ten years ago, a 37-year-old male was seen because of dysphagia …

METASTATIC CHEMODECTOMA Page 1 METASTATIC CHEMODECTOMA Earl M. Kabnick,
MD, Leon Serchuk, MD, and Leon Adler, MD Jamaica, New York The authors report a case of …