Tumors of the jugular foramen: diagnosis and management.

Objective: Jugular foramen tumors are rare cranial base lesions that present diagnostic and management difficulties. With the availability of new diagnostic procedures these tumors have been more precisely studied and questions of whether, when, and how these lesions should be treated often arise. Data from 106 consecutive patients surgically treated in the past 17 years were retrospectively analyzed to identify surgical outcomes.

Jugular foramen tumors: diagnosis and treatment.

Object: Jugular foramen tumors are rare skull base lesions that present diagnostic and complex management problems. The purpose of this study was to evaluate a series of patients with jugular foramen tumors who were surgically treated in the past 16 years, and to analyze the surgical technique, complications, and outcomes.

Methods: The authors retrospectively studied 102 patients with jugular foramen tumors treated between January 1987 and May 2004.