MULTIDICIPLINARY APPROACH TO CAROTID BODY PARAGANGLIOMA: PREOPERATIVE PERCUTANEOUS EMBOLIZATION AND SURGICAL RESECTION

Ali FIRAT; Cüneyt AYTEKİN; Fatih BOYVAT; Nur ALTINÖRS; Murad BAVBEK; Atılay TAŞDELEN

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Turkish Neurosurgery 2003 , Vol 13 , Num 3-4

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MULTIDICIPLINARY APPROACH TO CAROTID BODY PARAGANGLIOMA: PREOPERATIVE PERCUTANEOUS EMBOLIZATION AND SURGICAL RESECTION

Ali FIRAT¹, Cüneyt AYTEKİN¹, Fatih BOYVAT¹, Nur ALTINÖRS², Murad BAVBEK², Atılay TAŞDELEN³

¹Başkent University Faculty of Medicine, Departments of Radiology, Ankara, Turkey
²Başkent University Faculty of Medicine, Departments of Neurosurgery, Ankara, Turkey
³Başkent University Faculty of Medicine, Departments of Vascular Surgery, Ankara, Turkey This report describes a case of 28-year-old female with direct percutaneous embolization of a carotid body paraganglioma followed by surgical excision of the lesion. Preoperative angiographic embolization of such tumors has reduced intraoperative blood loss significantly and has caused shrinkage in tumor size. Multidisciplinary approach is very important to such pathologies. Direct percutaneos embolization provides much more important devascularization than endovascular embolization. Keywords : Carotid body, paraganglioma, percutaneous embolization

Corresponding author : Ali Fırat, alifiratdr@hotmail.com