1. Carotid body tumours in isolation occur commonly in the third to sixth decades of life and are only rarely reported in children-in a 1986 review of carotid body tumours by Dickinson et al only one of 32 cases was less than 16 years old
2. Hiner et;al in,1976
3. Pheochromocytoma in children;Stackpole, R.H.; Melicow, M.M.; Uson, A.C.;J Pediatr,1963
4. Pheochromocytoma in the adult and child;Hume, D.M.;Am J Surg,1960
5. Functioning middle mediastinal paraganglioma (phaeochromocytoma) associated with intercarotid paragangliomas;Dunn, G.D.; Brown, M.J.; Sapsford, R.N.;Lancet,1986