Carotid body tumor surgery

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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Sahar Memar Montazerin, M.D.[2]

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Surgery is the mainstay of treatment for the carotid body tumor.

Surgery is the mainstay of treatment for malignant tumors since chemotherapy and radiotherapy have not been observed to be effective.^[1]

↑ Wieneke, Jacqueline A.; Smith, Alice (2009). "Paraganglioma: Carotid Body Tumor". Head and Neck Pathology. 3 (4): 303–306. doi:10.1007/s12105-009-0130-5. ISSN 1936-055X.