Carotid body
Conceptual study of the Matrika Marma w.r.t Carotid sinus and Carotid body
... internal carotid arteries, there is carotid sinus which is a major vital point of the ...the body. Carotid body is also situated in common carotid artery which regulates the ...
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Carotid Body Tumour as an Unusual Cardiovascular Pathology: Report of Two Cases
... A carotid body tumour (CBT) is a rare form of an extra-adrenal pheochromocytoma. They are commonly diagnosed as asymptomatic neck masses. A careful preoperative evaluation is required to find out the ...
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Carotid Body Tumors: Series of Case Report and Retrospective Analysis: An Institutional Audit
... 3 patients (60%) had a painless, progressive swelling, 2 patients (40%) had pre-auricular pain, and 1 patient (20%) was identified in routine follow-up. All patients underwent surgical excision of CBT with no need to ...
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Carotid Body Tumors: Objective Criteria to Predict the Shamblin Group on MR Imaging
... We did not use tumor size in the MR imaging classifica- tion of CBTs. Retrospective analysis revealed that incorpo- rating volume in the radiologic classification to predict the Shamblin group would have been misleading ...
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The Quality of Imaging of the Carotid Body by the Standard Protocol for Computed Tomography Angiography of the Carotid Arteries
... the carotid body briefly outlined ear- lier in the present article, as well as the unsatisfac- tory quality of CB visualization by means of the standard CTA protocol for carotid arteries demon- ...
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Intermittent Hypoxia Affects Leptin and Leptin Receptor Signaling in the Rat Carotid Body
... The carotid body is composed of lobules or clusters consisting of two cell types: chemoreceptor type-I glomus cells (or chief cells) closely supported by type-II glial-like ...
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Exome analysis of carotid body tumor
... 52 carotid paragangliomas, collected from the sin- gle origin (carotid body) and consisting of patients with familial and sporadic forms, was performed ...
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CAROTID BODY TUMORS OUR EXPERIENCE WITH 20 PATIENTS
... Carotid body tumors grow relatively slowly hut may gradually impinge upon vital adjacent structures," ,md prompt surgery before invasion of vital neck structures by tumor and s i gn s of nerve paralysis ...
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Ultrastructural Abnormalities of the Carotid Body in Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
... Pediatrics 63:13-17, 1979, sudden infant death syndrome, carotid body, chemoreceptor cells, cytoplasmic granules, apnea.. The unexpected and unexplained death of an apparently healthy in[r] ...
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Carotid body chemoreceptors, sympathetic neural activation, and cardiometabolic disease
... The carotid body (CB) is a polymodal chemoreceptor located in the carotid bifurcation, which is activated by hypoxemia, hypercapnia, acidosis, reduction of arte- rial blood flow, temperature change ...
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Magnetic resonance and computed tomography imaging of a carotid body tumor in a dog
... The carotid glomus and aortic body are the most common sides for development of chemodectomas in dogs ...The carotid body is located dorsal from the bifur- cation of the common carotid ...
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Carotid Body Tumour: The Second Case Series from Baghdad, Iraq
... Background: Carotid body tumour (CBT) is a rare neoplasm, yet it is the commonest head and neck ...of carotid arteries. Intra-luminal carotid shunts and vein grafts were prepared to be used if ...
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Immunohistochemical Localization of Some Neurotrophic Factors and Their Receptors in the Rat Carotid Body
... The carotid body (CB) is a small neural crest-derived organ that registers oxygen and glucose levels in blood and regu- lates ventilation. The most abundant cell type in the CB glomeruli is glomus or type I ...
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Carotid Body Tumours: A Review
... Carotid body tumours are typically slow growing mass lesions and are often present for years prior to the patient seeking medical attention [10]. This lesion splays apart the ICA and ECA, and as it ...
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Mutational load in carotid body tumor
... Keywords: Carotid body tumor, Mutational load, Somatic variants, Germline variants, Exome, High-throughput sequencing.. Background.[r] ...
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Reference gene validation for qPCR in rat carotid body during postnatal development
... The carotid bodies are the main arterial oxygen chemoreceptors in ...the carotid bodies to brainstem respiratory and cardiovascular nuclei provides tonic input and mediates important protective responses to ...
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Carotid body tumors: radioguided surgical approach
... The risk of tumour recurrence is related to minimal lefto- vers which can be missed by surgical resection [21]. Intra- operative gamma probe radioactivity measurement on the tumour in vivo compared with the background on ...
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Evidence for a carotid body homolog in the lizard Tupinambis merianae
... the carotid artery. For the carotid vessel whole mounts, the common carotid arteries and all branches extending ~3–5 cm from the bifurcation were dissected out of the ...The carotid arteries ...
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What’s New in the Management and Treatment of Carotid Body Tumors
... Majority of patients with CBT present with a painless neck mass (around 65%) anterior to the sternocleidomastoid muscle. The pathognomonic sign on exam is a fixed mass in the vertical axis while mobile on the horizontal ...
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Parapharyngeal Neck Schwannomas with Unusual Vascular Displacement
... 2]. Carotid body tumors are rare neoplasms, although they represent about 65% of head and neck paragangliomas [1, ...at carotid bifurcation ...at carotid bifurcation they typically cause ...
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