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Carotid Body Tumors: Advantages of Contrast Ultrasound Investigation
Journal of Neuroimaging, 10/09/09

Giannoni MF et al. – Carotid body tumors are rare neoplasms that have to be considered in the evaluation of all lateral neck mass. The authors describe a case of a patient with a carotid body tumor assessed with contrast ultrasonography that clearly improved the quality of the standard color Duplex. This technique may represent a non–invasive method, easy to use and to repeat, and able to achieve high diagnostic accuracy.

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