Covered Carotid Stents as an Adjunct in the Surgical Treatment of Carotid Body Tumors: A Report of 2 Cases and a Review of the Literature

摘要

BACKGROUND AND IMPORTANCE: Carotid body tumors are a technically challenging surgical problem. One of the primary goals of surgery and often one of the most difficult aspects of management involves preservation of the ipsilateral internal carotid artery (ICA). We report a small case series with challenging aspects to ICA preservation that were successfully treated with covered stenting and review the literature to date on this topic. CLINICAL PRESENTATION; Two patients with carotid body tumors were selected for covered ICA stenting, the first because of bilateral disease and the second because of failure of test occlusion. The patients were initially loaded