Neurointerventional and Surgical Management of a Carotid Body Tumor: Case Report

Carotid body tumors are a rare type of head and neck tumor that can be safelyresected with the help of pre-operative neuro-interventional embolization. This adjunctintervention helps reduce blood loss and to maintain a near bloodless surgical fieldthat allows for good visualization of surrounding neurovascular elements. With theimprovements of neuroimaging in the angiography suite and technologies surroundingneuro-interventional procedures, the complications of this procedure have decreaseddramatically compared to what was reported in the 1980s-2000s.