Carotid body paraganglioma

Carotid body paraganglioma is commonly asymptomatic, slow‐growing, and nonfunctioning. With its relative contraindication to biopsy due to its high vascularity in nature, imaging characteristics are the key to help making the diagnosis. Treatment modalities, ranging from an observation to definitive...

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Autores principales: Pitchaiprasert, Suwanna, Boonchaya‐Anant, Patchaya, Snabboon, Thiti
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2019
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Clinical Image
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6745392/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31534761
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.2337
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author Pitchaiprasert, Suwanna
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description Carotid body paraganglioma is commonly asymptomatic, slow‐growing, and nonfunctioning. With its relative contraindication to biopsy due to its high vascularity in nature, imaging characteristics are the key to help making the diagnosis. Treatment modalities, ranging from an observation to definitive treatment with surgery, should be selected on an individual basis.
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spelling pubmed-67453922019-09-18 Carotid body paraganglioma Pitchaiprasert, Suwanna Boonchaya‐Anant, Patchaya Snabboon, Thiti Clin Case Rep Clinical Image Carotid body paraganglioma is commonly asymptomatic, slow‐growing, and nonfunctioning. With its relative contraindication to biopsy due to its high vascularity in nature, imaging characteristics are the key to help making the diagnosis. Treatment modalities, ranging from an observation to definitive treatment with surgery, should be selected on an individual basis. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2019-07-30 /pmc/articles/PMC6745392/ /pubmed/31534761 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.2337 Text en © 2019 The Authors. Clinical Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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