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Vagal body tumors: diagnosis and treatment
Author(s) -
Moore Grant,
Yarington C. T.,
Mangham Charles A.
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
the laryngoscope
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.181
H-Index - 148
eISSN - 1531-4995
pISSN - 0023-852X
DOI - 10.1288/00005537-198605000-00012
Subject(s) - medicine , presentation (obstetrics) , incidence (geometry) , differential diagnosis , lesion , radiology , pathology , physics , optics
This presentation includes a report of four vagal body tumors bringing the total number in the English literature to approximately 80. The diagnosis and treatment of this lesion, its familial incidence and the propensity for multiple secreting or nonsecreting chemodectomas, and appropriate clinical and pathologic studies required will be reviewed in some detail. Appropriate differential diagnostic features will be illustrated by comparison of these tumors with other primary vagal tumors from our experience such as neurofibromas, neurilemomas, and cystic degeneration of neurilemomas.