From the Department of General and Vascular Surgery, Shohada Medical Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, I.R. Iran.
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In this report of 20 patients with 24 carotid body tumors which is the
largest series reported so far from Iran, we have evaluated the various characteristics
of this relatively rare tumor in our population and compared our
results with that of the literature.
Although the prevalence of the tumor is cited to be equal among both
sexes, we found a female to male ratio of 2.3 to I, as 14 of our patients were
female and 6 were male. The tumor was as equally frequent on the right as it
was on the left, and was bilateral in four cases. The average tumor size was
5.3 cm in diameter and was found to be malignant in four cases.
The results we obtained following the careful surgical technique which
is described in detail compares quite favorably with that in the literature: 3
cases of cranial nerve injury (12.5%) compared to an average of 45% nerve
injury in the reports, and no perioperative death versus 2% perioperative
mortality in the literature. Also we had no instances of stroke, transient
ischemia, Horner's syndrome, or other complications. We propose the surgical
technique detailed by the author as the method of choice for treatment of
carotid body tumors in Iranian patients.
Type of Study:
Original Research |
Subject:
Surgery