Transpharyngeal ultrasound detection of carotid body paraganglioma.
We report a patient in whom a right carotid body paraganglioma was delineated using a transpharyngeal approach during a transesophageal echocardiographic (TEE) study. Color Doppler-guided pulsed-Doppler interrogation of the right internal carotid artery in the tumor region, revealed high maximum systolic and maximum diastolic velocities of 1.5 m/s and 1.0 m/s, respectively, suggestive of tumor compression.
Khanna
Deepak
D
Division of Cardiovascular Disease, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, 35249, USA.
Cheng
Peter H
PH
Nanda
Navin C
NC
Sinha
Ashish
A
Htay
Thein
T
Singh
Vikramjit
V
Elkhier
Abdalla
A
D002343:Carotid Artery, Internal / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D002345:Carotid Body Tumor / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D017548:Echocardiography, Transesophageal / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D010614:Pharynx; D018615:Ultrasonography, Doppler, Color