Surgical versus sequential hybrid treatment of carotid body tumors

Abstract: Carotid body tumor (CBT) are slow-growing tumors that develop in the cervical region at the carotid bifurcation.. In a randomized study, 33 patients were treated for CBT excision: 10 patients performed preoperative embolization (PE) and 23 were treated only by isolated traditional surgery (N-PE). The first group includes patients undergoing preoperative embolization. The second group of patients (N-PE) included 11 males and 12 females. Intraoperative complications were lower in patients treated with a hybrid procedure (PE): sections of the cranial nerves were recorded in 7% of cases compared to 12% of the surgical procedure (P-value = 0.72); while the reversible nerve lesions (P value = 0.21) and the permanent ones (P value = 0.46), were instead similar in both procedures. The comparative blood loss during the operative procedure shows a P-value of 0.02. Operating times, reversible damage of the cranial nerves, incidence of stroke (0% vs1%, P value> 0.99) and post-operative hospital stay (4.1 vs. 4.2 days, P value = 0.91) did not show differences in the two groups of patients. The analysis of the results detects pre-operative embolization of CBT in reducing intraoperative blood loss and resection of the cranial nerves..

Object Details

• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Surgical versus sequential hybrid treatment of carotid body tumors ; volume:14 ; number:1 ; year:2019 ; pages:968-976 ; extent:9 ; Open medicine ; 14, Heft 1 (2019), 968-976 (gesamt 9)

Contributors, Places and Time

• Creator: Amato, Bruno ; Compagna, Rita ; Florio, Anna ; Calemma, Francesca ; Rocca, Aldo ; Salzano, Francesco ; Brongo, Sergio ; Gasbarro, Vincenzo ; Aprea, Giovanni

Further information

• DOI: 10.1515/med-2019-0115
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2022101114064032569370
• Rights: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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