title: Carotid body paraganglioma with metastases.
abstract: The diagnosis of a carotid body paraganglioma with metastases led us to a critical review of the literature of 106 cases with metastasis reported between 1893 and 1980. The percentage of tumors with metastasis is in the order of 11.5% to 13%. There is no proven histological criterion from which to assert or infer their malignancy.
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D002345:Carotid Body Tumor / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D008198:Lymph Nodes / Q000473:pathology; D008207:Lymphatic Metastasis; D010235:Paraganglioma / Q000556:secondary*