Doctor Vu said that carotid body tumor is a rare type of tumor. The incidence rate is 1-2 patients/100,000 people - Photo: Provided by the hospital
Doctor CKII Than Trong Vu, head of the thoracic surgery department, Da Nang Hospital, informed that doctors had just successfully performed surgery on Mr. L.'s rare tumor.
Previously, initial tests and examinations showed that Mr. L's tumor was located in the right neck area. Size 33 x 37 x 64mm, clearly defined, surrounding the right carotid artery, with a central blood vessel.
The patient was diagnosed with a right carotid tumor with complications compressing the right carotid artery, and was admitted to the thoracic surgery department for surgical removal of the tumor.
BSCKII Than Trong Vu directly performed surgery on the patient, saying that the surgery was very difficult because the large tumor had many blood vessels that surrounded the internal carotid artery, the external carotid artery, and the bifurcation of the carotid artery.
Large tumors spread above the skull base and down, causing compression of the common carotid artery, so the risk of bleeding during and after surgery is very high.
There is also the possibility of brain injury during carotid artery clamping to treat carotid artery injury during dissection.
After 4 hours of surgery, the doctors successfully removed the entire tumor without any complications.
The post-operative pathology results showed paraganglioma of the head and neck consistent with the diagnosis of carotid body tumor. After surgery, the patient's health was stable, he could eat, talk normally and was discharged from the hospital.
Doctor Vu said that carotid body tumors are a rare type of tumor. The incidence is 1-2 patients/100,000 people, accounting for 0.6/100 neck tumors. The nature of the tumor is usually benign, however, about 5-7% of tumors have the potential to be malignant.
The tumor originates from the bifurcation of the common carotid artery into the internal carotid artery and the external carotid artery. Around the tumor are many important cranial nerves such as the glossopharyngeal nerve, hypoglossal nerve, and vagus nerve.
Surgery is the only radical treatment but it is very difficult, many neurological and vascular complications can occur. In the thoracic surgery department, this tumor has not been seen in 10 years.
“If the patient feels an unusually large neck area or a lump protruding, they should go to a specialized medical facility for timely treatment to avoid the case where the tumor becomes large, making surgery difficult and leading to many complications,” Dr. Vu advised.
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