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Malignant carotid body tumor with extradural metastases
Author(s) -
Whimster W. F.,
Masson A. F.
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
cancer
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.052
H-Index - 304
eISSN - 1097-0142
pISSN - 0008-543X
DOI - 10.1002/1097-0142(197007)26:1<239::aid-cncr2820260130>3.0.co;2-i
Subject(s) - medicine , paraplegia , carotid body , vertebral body , surgery , radiology , spinal cord , carotid arteries , psychiatry
A case of malignant carotid body tumor with metastases to the extradural space causing paraplegia is reported in a 29‐year‐old Jamaican woman. In only 2 of the 14 previously reported cases of carotid body tumor with distant metastases was there paraplegia, and both were due to tumor extension from vertebral bone metastases. It is suggested that the tumor in the present case reached the extradural space via direct venous communications with the neck.