What symptom does cervical artery body tumour canceration have

Update Date: 2022-04-13 Source: Network

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Many people are concerned about their physical problems nowadays. Carotid body tumor is a tumor that grows in the body of the carotid artery and occurs in the carotid body where the carotid artery is bifurcated. It is a rare chemosensory tumor. The incidence rate of people in the plateau is high. Because the incidence of carotid body tumor is very low, it is easy to be misdiagnosed as enlargement of cervical lymph nodes, aneurysms and other diseases and delay treatment. Carotid body tumor grows in the place with abundant blood supply, and grows very slowly, showing the characteristics of benign tumor. The specific clinical manifestations are as follows

What symptom does cervical artery body tumour canceration have

First, the most obvious and earliest symptom is a painless mass in the mandibular angle of the neck. At this time, although the lesion site is on the carotid body, it is difficult to determine the lesion site when going to the hospital, and it is habitually diagnosed as cervical local lymphadenopathy.

Second, if the carotid body tumor has malignant transformation or degeneration within the tumor, which leads to the rapid growth of the tumor in a short period of time, it will compress the normal nerves, blood vessels, tissues and organs nearby and present the corresponding lesions. If the common carotid artery is compressed, dizziness, tinnitus and other symptoms may appear.

Third: some patients may have carotid sinus syndrome. Due to the change of body position, the tumor compresses the carotid sinus and causes the cardiac "pump" dysfunction reflexively, resulting in lower heart rate, lower blood pressure, faster breathing, coma and other symptoms.

matters needing attention

For the treatment of carotid body tumor, surgical treatment is mostly adopted at present. However, because it grows on the carotid body with rich blood and fast flow speed, the operation risk is quite large, which is easy to cause a lot of bleeding and affect the collateral circulation of the body.