[Clinical forms of glomus tumors of the temporal bone and base of the skull].

On the basis of the clinical examination of 99 patients, researchers distinguished the clinical forms of the glomus tumour of the temporal bone and of the base of the skull: glomus jugulare tumour, tympanic glomus, glomus of the pyramid of the temporal bone, glomus of the vagus nerve. Every clinical form is characterized both by general symptoms and by signs which appear only with the given form. The peculiarity of the clinical course of glomus tumours is due to intracranial growth, malignization and also by recurrence and prolonged growth.

[Jugular and tympanic glomus tumors with intracranial growth].

The authors studied 9 patients with an intracranial growth of a glome tumour. Clinically it was characterized by tumorous symptoms of the middle ear or of the jugular fossa. These signs were accompanied by a cerebral hypertensive syndrome and by symptoms related to the influence of the tumour on the brain stem, cerebellum and III--IV cranial nerves.