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Glomus Tumor (Head and Neck): Multimedia
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 | Media file 1: Glomus jugulare tumor. CT scan demonstrates a permeative destructive skull-base mass with involvement of the mastoid air cells. Reprinted with permission. Copyright Springer-Verlag. |
 | Media file 2: Glomus jugulare tumor. Selective external carotid angiogram demonstrates a vascular skull-base mass. Reprinted with permission. Copyright Springer-Verlag. |
 | Media file 3: Glomus jugulare tumor. Axial contrast-enhanced T1-weighted MRI shows an enhancing right skull-base mass. Reprinted with permission. Copyright Springer-Verlag. |
 | Media file 4: Glomus jugulare tumor. Axial T2-weighted MRI shows salt-and-pepper vascularity in the substance of the tumor. Reprinted with permission. Copyright Springer-Verlag. |
 | Media file 5: Glomus jugulare tumor. Coronal T1-weighted contrast-enhanced MRI shows a mass protruding into the jugular foramen. Reprinted with permission. Copyright Springer-Verlag. |
 | Media file 6: Glomus jugulare tumor. Lateral angiogram demonstrates a large vascular mass arising from branches of the external carotid artery. Note the anterior bowing of the internal carotid artery and extension of the mass through the skull base. Reprinted with permission. Copyright Springer-Verlag. |
 | Media file 7: Glomus vagale tumor. Contrast-enhanced CT scan demonstrating a large vascular mass along the course of the left internal carotid artery and jugular vein above the level of the carotid bifurcation. Reprinted with permission. Copyright Springer-Verlag. |
 | Media file 8: Glomus vagale tumor. Angiogram demonstrates a densely vascular mass. Reprinted with permission. Copyright Springer-Verlag. |
 | Media file 9: Carotid body tumor. CT scan demonstrates an enhancing carotid bifurcation mass. Reprinted with permission. Copyright Springer-Verlag. |
 | Media file 10: Carotid body tumor. Contrast-enhanced T1-weighted MRI shows a strongly enhancing mass overlying the right carotid bifurcation. Reprinted with permission. Copyright Springer-Verlag. |
 | Media file 11: Carotid body tumor. Axial T2-weighted MRI demonstrates splaying of the external and internal carotid arteries. Reprinted with permission. Copyright Springer-Verlag. |
 | Media file 12: Carotid body tumor. Lateral angiogram shows a densely vascular mass at the level of the carotid bifurcation that causes splaying of the internal and external carotid arteries. Reprinted with permission. Copyright Springer-Verlag. |
 | Media file 13: Carotid body tumor. Postembolization with polyvinyl alcohol. Many feeding arteries arising from the occipital artery and superior thyroid arteries were embolized to achieve this result. Reprinted with permission. Copyright Springer-Verlag. |
 | Media file 14: Glomus tympanicum tumor. Axial CT image shows a small vascular mass along the right tympanic membrane. Note the adjacent opacified mastoid air cells. Reprinted with permission. Copyright Springer-Verlag. |
 | Media file 15: Glomus tympanicum tumor. Coronal CT scan confirms the presence of a known hypotympanic mass consistent with glomus tympanicum. Reprinted with permission. Copyright Springer-Verlag. |
 | Media file 16: Multiple glomus tumors. Angiogram obtained in a female patient with bilateral carotid body tumors, bilateral glomus vagale tumors, and left glomus jugulare tumors with corresponding angiographically enhancing masses. Reprinted with permission. Copyright Springer-Verlag. |
 | Media file 17: This patient had a biopsy-proven renal cell carcinoma that metastasized to a laryngeal lymph node and formed a hypervascular mass that mimicked a glomus tumor. This mass was not in a typical location for a glomus tumor, despite its vascular appearance. Reprinted with permission. Copyright Springer-Verlag. |
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Keywords
chemodectoma, nonchromaffin paraganglioma, glomus body tumors, paraganglioma, glomus jugulare tumors, glomus tympanicum tumors, glomus vagale tumors, carotid body glomus tumors, carotid body tumors
