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Chemodectoma (Carotid-Body Tumor) Metastasizing to Bone CASE REPORT
RAMON B. GUSTILO; PAUL H. LOBER; EDWARD L. SALOVICH
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From the Department of Surgery, Division of Orthopedic Surgery, and the Department of Pathology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
1965 by The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, Incorporated
The Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery.  1965; 47:155-160 
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Abstract

A case of carotid-body tumor with two isolated metastases to the left ilium is presented. The first metastatic lytic lesion to the left ilium appeared thirty-five years after the mass was first noted and thirteen years after excision of the primary tumor. Two biopsies—done four years apart—revealed metastatic carotid-body tumor. X-ray and cobalt irradiation followed each biopsy with no demonstrable effect on the size or structure of the tumor. At the time of writing, the patient is still alive with minimum discomfort in the left hip, despite a pathological fracture of the acetabulum and increase in the size of the iliac lesions.

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