ABSTRACT NUMBER: ESOC2026A1537 CAROTID BODY TUMOUR AS AN INCIDENTALOMA IN AN ACUTE ISCHAEMIC STROKE PATIENT
Rafia Zaman, Menuja Vijayakumar, Lakshmanan Sekaran, Duke Phiri · 2026
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Rafia Zaman and co-authors reported in 2026 a stroke patient whose scans turned up an unexpected lump: a rare tumor of the carotid body, the tiny sensor where the neck artery forks. Such tumors are usually harmless and silent, found in only one or two people per hundred thousand.
The sixty-three year old man came in with slurred speech and weakness on one side; brain scans confirmed a stroke in the right middle artery territory. Neck ultrasound found no artery narrowing but spotted a solid mass wedged between the fork's branches, and a follow up scan confirmed the tumor at two centimeters wide. A vessel team advised removal, since the tumor can grow, press on nerves, or rarely turn malignant.
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| CREATOR | Rafia Zaman, Menuja Vijayakumar, Lakshmanan Sekaran, Duke Phiri |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 2 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |