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H. ROSENWASSER, M.D.

Arch Otolaryngol. 1945;41(1):64-67.

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Precise knowledge of the structure of the carotid body dates back to the contribution of von Luschka¹ in 1862. Since the communications of Marchand,² von Paltauf,³ Mönckeberg⁴ and others dealing with cases of tumor of the carotid body, numerous contributions to the anatomy, embryology, physiology and pathology of the carotid body have been made.

The literature dealing with tumor of the carotid body has been thoroughly reviewed by Keen and Funke⁵ (1906), Callison and Mackenty⁶ (1913), Bevan and McCarthy⁷ (1929), Rankin and Wellbrock⁸ (1931), Peterson and Meeker⁹ (1936), Sonck¹⁰ (1938), Gratiot¹¹ (1943) and others. From these collective reviews it appears that to date there have been approximately 300 cases of tumor of the carotid body, an indication that tumors of this type must be regarded as rare.

Even less frequent, however, are the reports of cases of aberrant carotid body tumor. Rössing¹² reported a case in which at postmortem examination . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
NEW YORK

From the Department of Pathology and the Otologic Service of Dr. J. L. Maybaum, Mount Sinai Hospital.

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