title: Are carotid body tumours malignant?
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, Baragwanath Hospital, Johannesburg.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Pantanowitz
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Davidge-Pitts
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Gaylis
authors.forename: M J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Hale
mesh_terms: D002345:Carotid Body Tumor / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D009362:Neoplasm Metastasis