Assessment of health-related quality of life in patients prior to carotid body tumor resection:

BackgroundCarotid body tumors represent approximately 0.5% of the total head and neck tumors, and the most common presentation form is an asymptomatic cervical mass. Despite of being most of them asymptomatic the quality of life could be impacted; however, the literature remains silent about this matter. The Short Form 36 (SF-36) is a health-related quality of life (HRQoL) instrument that includes eight domains to assess physical and emotional function in different diseases. The aim of this study was to compare HRQoL in preoperative patients with carotid body tumor and a control paired group. The secondary objective was to compare HRQoL between carotid body tumor patients according to the volume tumor and Shamblin classification.MethodsA cross-sectional study that included 23 patients diagnosed with carotid body tumor prior to resection and 23 control patients paired by age and gender was conducted from January 2017 to December 2018. The SF-36 questionnaire was applied in 46 patients. Three-dimensional vo...