Vagal-Body Tumor (Chemodectoma of the Glomus Intravagale)

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Abstract
A MASS presenting in the anterolateral aspect of the neck is always a problem in clinical diagnosis. Last among the possibilities considered is chemodectoma (nonchromaffin paraganglioma) —and particularly vagal-body tumor — because of its rarity as compared with the several other kinds of tumors that may appear in the neck.A chemodectoma presenting in the neck, however, may have arisen from any of several morphologically similar nests of cells known as chemoreceptors, including the well known carotid body, the vagal body and the glomera along the cervical portion of the vagus nerve.1 , 2 In addition, a tumor of the glomus jugulare . . .