Cessation of Epilepsy in an 8-Year-Old Girl Following Removal of Carotid Body Paraganglioma

Abstract

We present a case of an 8-year-old girl with established focal epilepsy, whose fits resolved permanently after excision of a carotid body paraganglioma.

Keywords

paraganglioma chemodectoma epilepsy

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