Carotid Body Paraganglioma

Carotid body paraganglioma (CBP) is a type neuroendocrine tumour arising from paraganglial chief cells of carotid body. Situated at the bifurcation of the common carotid artery, it constitutes 0.5% of all body tumours. Though CBP's is most common paraganglioma of head and neck it is a rare neop...

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Autores principales: Hosalkar, Rashmi Maruti, Khivasara, Jayesh S., Swain, Niharika
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2019
Materias:
Case Report - Tumors and Tumor like Conditions
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6933986/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31909029
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ams.ams_183_18
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Sumario:Carotid body paraganglioma (CBP) is a type neuroendocrine tumour arising from paraganglial chief cells of carotid body. Situated at the bifurcation of the common carotid artery, it constitutes 0.5% of all body tumours. Though CBP's is most common paraganglioma of head and neck it is a rare neoplasm and requires a thorough examination for a proper diagnosis and therapeutic management. Here, we present a case of 36 year old female patient with CBP in left side of the neck.

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