颈动脉体瘤是化学感受器肿瘤,这种化学感受器主要存在于颈动脉体和主动脉体,但许多作者报导在颈静脉、迷走神经、交感神经节、纵膈、肺、腹部、腹膜后、四肢也有化学感受器存在而产生化学感受器肿瘤。Reigner在1880年首次进行了颈动脉体瘤切除,但病人术后死亡。Maydl在1886年切除颈动脉体瘤一例,病人存活,但併发有偏瘫和失语症。Albert在1889年第一次不结紥颈动脉成功地切除了 Carotid body tumors are chemoreceptor tumors. This chemoreceptor is mainly found in the carotid body and the aortic body, but many authors report it also in the jugular vein, vagus nerve, sympathetic ganglion, mediastinal, lung, abdomen, retroperitoneal, and limbs. The presence of chemoreceptors produces chemoreceptor tumors. Reigner first performed a carotid body tumor resection in 1880, but the patient died after surgery. Maydl had a case of a carotid body tumor excised in 1886. The patient survived, but he had concurrent hemiplegia and aphasia. Albert successfully excised the carotid artery without ligation in 1889