Tumors of the spinal cord include several nosological units and are classified depending on their location and histological type. The article presents the general characteristics, classification, and epidemiology of spinal cord tumors. The paper presents the clinical manifestations of intradural extramedullary tumors of the spinal cord. The main methods of diagnosing extramedullary tumors of the spinal cord are highlighted. Furthermore, the paper details the modern aspects of the surgical treatment of spinal cord tumors. Particular emphasis is placed on the complications of surgical interventions. The radicality of neurosurgical treatment of spinal cord tumors depends not only on the location and size of the tumor, but also on its histological structure, which determines the outcome of the disease.
Carotid chemodectoma (CC) (carotid glomus tumor, carotid tumor, carotid paraganglioma, carotid gland struma) is in most cases a benign, slow-growing tumor from paraganglionic cells of the carotid glomus. Glomus tumors account for 60–70 % of all paragangliomas of the head and neck. This article describes in detail the anatomy of the carotid glomus, histological types of tumors and the causes of their formation. A special role is given to the clinical picture in this pathology and modern methods of instrumental diagnostics. Modern CT surgery has established a correlation between anatomical classification and the severity of surgical resection complications, which allows neurosurgeons to predict blood loss and neurological complications in each patient. Operations to remove the carotid glomus with a chemodectomy are complex and technically different from classical operations on the carotid arteries. Despite the possibility of chemoradiotherapy with chemodect, surgical remains the main method of treatment.
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