Carotid body tumors: radioguided surgical approach

Table 1 Preoperative investigation modalities in 16 CBTs

Technique	n. CBTs (%)
Color-coded imaging	16 (100%)
Indium 111In-pentreotide scintigraphy -SPECT*	16 (100%)
Angio-MR	7 (58.3%)
Angio-CT	9 (75%)
Digital selective angiography**	8 (66.6%)

* Body images were acquired from head, neck, chest, abdomen and pelvis
** Preoperative embolization was carried out in 7 out of 8 cases submitted to selective carotid angiography

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