[Radical removal of carotid chemodectoma followed by prosthetic repair of the internal carotid artery].
Presented herein is a case report of successful surgical management of a 34-year-old female patient diagnosed with carotid chemodectoma, a relatively rare pathology vascular surgeons come across and have to deal with. A comprehensive examination (including duplex scanning of cervical arteries, multispiral CT angiography) revealed a 7 x 8 cm cervical tumour completely invading the walls of both the external and internal carotid arteries, thus requiring their resection, followed by prosthetic replacement of the internal carotid artery with a synthetic graft. The postoperative period turned out uneventful. On the 7th postoperative day, the patient was discharged home from hospital in a satisfactory condition with good laboratory and haemodynamic values.
A M
AM
Cherniavskiĭ
V B
VB
Starodubtsev
A V
AV
Bakharev
M S
MS
Stoliarov
O S
OS
Efanova
V U
VU
Efendiev
D000328:Adult; D001807:Blood Vessel Prosthesis; D002343:Carotid Artery, Internal / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D010236:Paraganglioma, Extra-Adrenal / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D018616:Ultrasonography, Doppler, Duplex; D019043:Vascular Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery*