Carotid body tumor: appearance on color-flow Doppler sonography.
Color doppler sonography permits differentiation of vascular malformations in the neck from solid and cystic tumors. This case report of a 67-yearly-old woman demonstrates the hypervascularized nature of a carotid body tumor displacing the internal carotid artery and fed by branches of the external carotid artery.
Delcker
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Department of Neurology, University of Essen, FRG.
Diener
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Müller
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D000368:Aged; D015901:Angiography, Digital Subtraction; D001783:Blood Flow Velocity / Q000502:physiology; D002345:Carotid Body Tumor / Q000098:blood supply / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D014463:Ultrasonography