A benign or malignant extra-adrenal parasympathetic paraganglioma arising from paraganglia adjacent to or in the bifurcation of the common carotid artery. Most patients present with a slow growing, painless mass in the neck. [ NCIT:C2932 ]
Synonyms: carotid body paraganglioma paraganglioma of carotid body
Term information
- MEDGEN:2853 (MONDO:equivalentTo)
- UMLS:C0007279 (MONDO:equivalentTo)
- ICDO:8692/1 (NCIT:C2932)
- NCIT:C2932 (MONDO:equivalentTo)
gard_rare, otar, rare, nord_rare
http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/NCIT_C2932
http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/umls/id/C0007279
http://identifiers.org/medgen/2853
carotid body tumor
chemodectoma, undetermined
chemodectoma
carotid body tumour
tumour of carotid body
tumor of the carotid body
tumour of the carotid body
tumor of carotid body
paraganglioma of the carotid body
carotid body chemodectoma