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Glomus jugulare tumours—combined treatment: Part I

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 June 2007

Gale Gardner
Affiliation:
Associate Clinical Professor, Department of Otolaryngology and Maxillofacial Surgery; University of Tennessee Center for Health Sciences; Memphis, Tennessee. 899 Madison Avenue, Suite 602-A, Memphis, Tennessee 38103.
Edwin W. Cocke Jr
Affiliation:
Clinical Professor, Department of Otolaryngology and Maxillofacial Surgery; University of Tennessee Center for Health Sciences; Memphis, Tennessee.
James T. Robertson
Affiliation:
Professor and Chairman, Department of Neurosurgery; University of Tennessee Center for Health Sciences; Memphis, Tennessee.
Martin L. Trumbull
Affiliation:
Associate Director of Laboratories; Baptist Memorial Hospital; Memphis, Tennessee.
Robert E. Palmer
Affiliation:
Chief Radiation Oncologist; Baptist Memorial Hospital; Memphis, Tennessee.

Abstract

Total en bloc removal is the ideal surgical treatment for glomus jugulare tumours. Efforts to accomplish this have been made periodically since shortly after this tumour was first identified in the early 1940s. A method of removal using a combined approach through the neck and temporal bone is described here. This method is preceded by pre-operative irradiation therapy and on occasion by embolization. The early results obtained using this method in 19 patients are reported.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © JLO (1984) Limited 1981

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