RADICAL REMOVAL OF CAROTID CHEMODECTOMA FOLLOWED BY PROSTHETIC REPAIR OF THE INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY. A CASE REPORT

Chernyavskii A.M., Starodubtsev V.B., Bakharev A.V., Stolyarov M.S, Efanova O.S., Efendiev V.U.
Centre for Surgery of the Aorta, Coronary and Peripheral Arteries Federal State Facility Novosibirsk Research Institute for Circulatory Pathology named after Academician E. N. Meshalkin under the Russian Medical Technologies Agency,
Novosibirsk, Russia

Presented herein is a case report of successful surgical management of a 34-year-old female patient diagnosed with carotid chemodectoma, a relatively rare pathology vascular surgeons come across and have to deal with. A comprehensive examination (including duplex scanning of cervical arteries, multispiral CT angiography) revealed a 7x8 cm cervical tumour completely invading the walls of both the external and internal carotid arteries, thus requiring their resection, followed by prosthetic replacement of the internal carotid artery with a synthetic graft. The postoperative period turned out uneventful. On the 7th postoperative day, the patient was discharged home from hospital in a satisfactory condition with good laboratory and haemodynamic values.

KEY WORDS: carotid chemodectoma, prosthetic repair of the internal carotid artery.

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