Cessation of epilepsy in an 8-year-old girl following removal of carotid body paraganglioma.
We present a case of an 8-year-old girl with established focal epilepsy, whose fits resolved permanently after excision of a carotid body paraganglioma.
Wall
Michael L
ML
Departments of Vascular Surgery and Cellular Pathology, University Hospital Birmingham, NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham, United Kingdom. Michael.Wall@UHB.NHS.UK
Davies
Robert S M
RS
Warfield
Adrian T
AT
Simms
Malcolm H
MH
D002345:Carotid Body Tumor / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D002648:Child; D004827:Epilepsy / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007002:Hypoglossal Nerve / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D009361:Neoplasm Invasiveness; D013564:Sympathetic Nervous System / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D014630:Vagus Nerve / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery