Are carotid body tumours malignant?
Carotid body tumours (CBTs) are slow-growing, malignant neoplasms by virtue of their local spread by continuity and contiguity and metastatic spread by lymph and blood. This article reports the findings of a pathological study of the growth characteristics of CBTs.
Pantanowitz
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Department of Surgery, Baragwanath Hospital, Johannesburg.
Davidge-Pitts
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Gaylis
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Hale
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D002345:Carotid Body Tumor / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D009362:Neoplasm Metastasis