Carotid Body Tumor Resection in Alzahra Hospital During 2004-2009: Complication and Outcome

• Main Authors: Mohammad Ali Hoghoughi, Shahryar Sennemari, Ali Akbar Beigi
• Format: Article
• Language: fas
• Published: Vesnu Publications 2011-03-01
• Series: مجله دانشکده پزشکی اصفهان
• Subjects: Carotid body tumor; Complication; Outcome
• Online Access: http://jims.mui.ac.ir/index.php/jims/article/view/815

Background: surgical resection without preoperative angioembolization is an appropriate treatment for carotid body tumor but may lead to unwanted complications. The aim of present study is to define characteristics, complications, and outcomes of patients with carotid body tumor treated without embolization and by subadvantitial tumor resection. Methods: this cross sectional study was performed in Al Zahra hospital during 2004-2009 among patients candidate for carotid body tumor resection. Demographic data as well as complications attributed to operation were collected. Data were analyzed by SPSS software. Finding: 32 patients and 36 operations were enrolled. Mean age was 51.4  13.62 years. 12.5 % of subjects were male and 87.5% were female. All tumors were diagnosed as paraganglioma by histopathology examination. Mean size of tumors was 3.4  0.91 cm. Cervical lymphadenopathy was the most common complication and orthostatic hypotension was tge second one. Conclusion: The rate of complications among our series of patients operated without preoperative angioembolization via subadvantisial dissection were overall acceptable.