Four Cases of Carotid Body Tumors

Tomoo Watanabe; Nobuo Ohta; Takashi Nasu; Hiroh Inamura; Shuji Koike; Masaru Aoyagi

doi:10.5631/jibirinsuppl.130.167

Festschrift for Professor Masaru Aoyagi In Honor of His Retirement as Chairman of the Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Yamagata University School of Medicine

Four Cases of Carotid Body Tumors

Tomoo Watanabe, Nobuo Ohta, Takashi Nasu, Hiroh Inamura, Shuji Koike, Masaru Aoyagi

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Keywords: carotid body tumor (CBT), bone metastasis, malignancy potential

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2011 Volume 130 Pages 167-173

DOI https://doi.org/10.5631/jibirinsuppl.130.167

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Abstract

We report four cases of carotid body tumors (CBTs) in which tumors were removed surgically in two and the internal carotid artery (ICA) preserved in one. In the other, the ICA had to be replaced by the saphenous vein. The remaining two subjects died of multiple bone metastasis. These results emphasize the unpredictable nature of CBT and their malignancy potential, which warrants complete tumor resection and long-term postoperative follow-up.

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