[The surgical treatment of carotid body tumor and prevention and treatment of complications].

Carotid body tumor is an uncommon paraganglioma tumor in the head and neck region. Carotid angiography remains the gold standard for this tumor.Surgical treatment has been universally accepted as the main treatment of CBT, resection of it is technically challenging because of the location. In order to reduce the morbidity of intraoperative and postoperative complications,we summarize the surgical treatment and the prevention and treatment of complication of this neoplasm, after retrieving the domestic and foreign literature.