Intrathoracic Tumours of Carotid Body Type (Chemodectoma)

Pedunculated haemangiopericytoma attached to the thoracic aorta.

“…Collagenous thickening of the capillaries, seen in the present case, has been reported in three cases by Stout (1949), but this has also been found in chemodectoma (Barrie, 1961) and therefore is not of diagnostic assistance. The production of fibromatous tissue in our case is an indication of the close relation between various connective tissue cells.…”

Intrathoracic carotid-body tumour (chemodectoma).

“…Twelve previous reports of intrathoracic chemodectoma were collected by Barrie (1961), who added two cases of his own. Ten of the 15 patients were men, and only five women.…”

Intrathoracic chemodectoma with multiple localisations.

“…The collective surveys of patients with an intrathoracic chemodectoma show an equal age and sex distribution (Barrie, 1961;Elders, 1962;Smithers and Gowing, 1965). The patients are often asymptomatic, the tumour being discovered in 50% of cases at routine screening or at postmortem examination (Gremmel et al, 1966).…”

“…Shaw and Kennedy (1956) described a chemodectoma in relation to the ninth intercostal space. Barrie (1961) reviewed 12 cases of intrathoracic chemodectoma from the literature and added two personal observations. Elders and de Boer (1961) reported three personal cases, including one with an intrapulmonary localisation, and, in a thesis on paragangliomas, Elders (1962) described six intrathoracic cases in The Netherlands (including our patient after her first operation); in addition he collected the data on 19 patients from the literature.…”