Surgery of Carotid Body Tumour: 14 Cases in 7 Years

Results from Craniocaudal Carotid Body Tumor Resection: Should It be the Standard Surgical Approach?

“…Kruger et al 10 described an incidence of 18.3% in a study of 49 CBTs in 39 patients, without providing exact information regarding Shamblin classification. Smaller studies performed by Ma et al 11 and Ozay et al 8 showed comparable rates of persistent cranial nerve damage to the present study, although our study included considerably more Shamblin III CBTs.…”

Carotid Body Tumor Surgery: Management and Outcomes in the Nation

“…Authors have supported that preoperative EMB of CBT should not be a routine procedure 28 and the blood loss for these patients was not less than for those without EMB. 29 Litle et al 25 reported no differences in blood loss, number of blood transfusions, operative time, or perioperative morbidity between preoperatively embolized CBT excision, and no EMB and this study concluded that ''in this era of cost containment, preoperative EMB should not be used''.…”

Preoperative Angiography and Transarterial Embolization in the Management of Carotid Body Tumor: A Single-Center, 10-Year Experience

“…These results were similar to some and quite different from others reported in the literature. [26][27][28][29][30][31][32] The studies that had different results may be due to different lesion types, variation of feeding arteries, patient condition, and experiences of the interventional radiologists and surgeons involved.…”