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Provides historical context for chemodectoma terminology; leaves open its relevance to current chemoreceptor tumor classification.
A morphological study of the carotid bodies led de His ideas were con- firmed by Bodies or glomera had been described at several sites long before their function became known. They are aggregates of chemo- receptor cells and are now acknowledged to have a wider distribution than was at first supposed; they have been described in the limbs, in the abdomen, and in the orbit, as well as in the com- moner sites shown in Table Mulligan suggested in 1950 that a tumour of the chemoreceptors should be called a 'chemodectoma'.
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Smithers et al. (1965) studied this question.
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