Fever as the main presenting symptom of a carotid body tumor

Mehrdad Ghoreishi; Ali Akbar-Beigi; Diana Tahery; Siavoush Sehhat

Fever as the main presenting symptom of a carotid body tumor

Mehrdad Ghoreishi, Ali Akbar-Beigi, Diana Tahery, Siavoush Sehhat

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Abstract

Carotid body tumor (paraganglioma) is a rare tumor which presents as a mass in the lateral part of the neck. It is typically a slow-growing and nonsymptomatic mass at the beginning. Fever is not an usual symptom of this tumor. Here, we report a 78- year-old woman presenting with this tumor as a cause of fever of unknown origin.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	214-7
Number of pages	4
Journal	Archives of Iranian medicine
Volume	11
Issue number	2
State	Published - Feb 2008
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Aged
Angiography, Digital Subtraction
Carotid Body Tumor/diagnosis
Diagnosis, Differential
Female
Fever/diagnosis
Humans
Magnetic Resonance Imaging

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