Open AccessNeurointerventional and Surgical Management of a Carotid Body Tumor: Case Report
Author(s) -
Richard B. Young
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
medical journal of southern california clinicians
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2576-1897
pISSN - 2576-1889
DOI - 10.38206/140105
Subject(s) - neurovascular bundle , medicine , embolization , radiology , neuroimaging , angiography , head and neck , carotid body , intervention (counseling) , surgery , carotid arteries , psychiatry
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.