Annals of Vascular Surgery
Volume 20, Issue 4 , Pages 435-439 , July 2006

Carotid Body Tumor Resection: Does the Need for Vascular Reconstruction Worsen Outcome?

  • J. Joshua Smith, MD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Vascular Surgery, Department of Surgery, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
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  • Marc A. Passman, MD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Vascular Surgery, Department of Surgery, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorrespondence to: Marc A. Passman, MD, Section of Vascular Surgery, University of Alabama at Birmingham, BDB 503 1808, 7th Avenue South, Birmingham, AL, 35294-0012, USA
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  • Jeffery B. Dattilo, MD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Vascular Surgery, Department of Surgery, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
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  • Raul J. Guzman, MD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Vascular Surgery, Department of Surgery, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
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  • Thomas C. Naslund, MD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Vascular Surgery, Department of Surgery, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
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  • James L. Netterville, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Otolaryngology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA

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 Presented at Sixteenth Annual Winter Meeting of the Peripheral Vascular Surgery Society, Park City, UT, January 26–29, 2006.

PII: S0890-5096(06)61458-1

doi: 10.1007/s10016-006-9093-0

Annals of Vascular Surgery
Volume 20, Issue 4 , Pages 435-439 , July 2006

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