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Chemodectomas have now been described in a number of sites in both the surgical and radiological literature. The commonest of these tumours of the chemoreceptor system is the carotid body tumour. In the case described below a rarer type of chemodectoma is discussed, namely the glomus intravagale or vagal body tumour arising from the inferior ganglion of the vagus.
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