A glomus jugulare tumor is a tumor within the skull cavity. The area of the skull affected by this type of tumor is called the jugular foramen. The jugular foramen is on the temporal bone.

Given the location, combined with slight bony remodeling of the jugular foramen suggestive of a slow growing lesion, the appearance was thought to be consistent with a glomus jugulare tumor (Fig 2).

(10) There are a number of different types of paraganglioma, classified by their location in the body. A glomus jugulare tumor is a type of paraganglioma that forms near the base of the skull ...

2 Besides differing in location from pheochromocytoma ... Furthermore, a few carotid-body tumors and glomus-jugulare tumors have been reported to produce hypertension through increased secretion ...

Glomus jugulare tumors are a very rare form of paraganglioma, a type of neuroendocrine tumor. They affect approximately 0.07 per 100,000 people. This is around 1 case per 1.3 million people.

The tumor to which the authors are actually referring is the jugulotympanic paraganglioma, which has been mistakenly referred to as a “glomus jugulare tumor” in the past. This neoplasm ...

Paragangliomas may also be known by these names: Carotid body tumors Pheochromocytomas Glomus jugulare Extra-adrenal paragangliomas Experts recommend all people with paragangliomas get genetic testing ...

Figure 1. Axial imaging of glomus jugulare and treatment planning. A. T1W MRI with contrast. B. 68 Ga-DOTATATE PET/CT. C. MRI-PET fusion. D. Gamma knife radiation dose distribution. Image created ...

Glomus jugulare tumors are rare lesions accounting for approximately 0.6% of head and neck tumors (Greenberg, 2001) and arise from paraganglion cells in the area of the jugular bulb, typically ...