Open AccessTUMOR OF GLOMUS JUGULARE REPORT OF A CASE
Author(s) -
Hosoda Syun,
Suzuki Harumi,
Kito Hanae,
ISOJIMA Genzo,
ISHIGAMI Hiromichi
Publication year - 1975
Publication title -
acta patholigica japonica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.73
H-Index - 74
ISSN - 0001-6632
DOI - 10.1111/j.1440-1827.1975.tb01993.x
Subject(s) - pathology , medicine , glomus tumor , anatomy
A typical case of glomus jugulare tumor was presented. This 42‐year‐old man suffering from a left‐sided Impaired hearing progressive over a Ave year period was found to have a small hemorrhagic polypoid tumor in the left external auditory canal. After repeated surgical treatments the tumor removed was light and electron microscopically diagnosed as glomus jugulare tumor which corresponded to the 13th case in this country. The Implication that this tumor may constitute a distinctive group of tumor among the neuroendocrine tumors from other sites was discussed from the facts of the presence of a large number of rather small argyrophilic granules of secretory type in the cytoplasm of tumor cells including the present case and of the appearance of increasing cases with functioning glomus jugulare tumor secreting catecholamine in the recent medical literature.