The present investigation was initiated by the incidental preoperative finding of a prolonged Quick prothrombin time in a woman with a carotid-body tumor. The demonstration of a similar clotting ...

A carotid body tumor can occur and are considered a “paraganglioma” since it originates from neurons. They develop in the carotid body which normally helps to regulate oxygen, carbon dioxide ...

and paragangliomas of the carotid bifurcation are carotid body tumors.) Lesions may occur in multiples along the extra-adrenal chromaffin cell system; 40%-50% of all patients with an auto-somal ...