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Carotid Body Tumors: A I 6-Year Follow-up of Seven Malignant Cases
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Neuro-oncologySurgical PathologyCarotid Body TumorPathologyThirty CasesDistant MetastasesSeven Malignant CasesMedicineRadiation OncologyCarotid Body Tumors6-Year Follow-up
Abstract:Thirty cases of carotid body tumor are presented, 28 having been followed for an average of 11 years. Seven eventually developed regional lymph node or distant metastases. Follow-up on these seven patients averages 16 years from the onset of symptoms. Two died of their disease. Three have p