Usman Rafique, Nadeem Ul Haq, Syed Ali Zul Hasnain, Kamran Zamurad Malik.
Glomus tumors.
Professional Med J Jan ;14(4):567-72.

Objectives: 1. To study the age/sex incidence of patients suffering from glomus tumours of the temporal bone. 2. To see various clinical presentations with which these tumours present and their variation according to the age and sex. Design: Our study design was non-inter-ventional descriptive. Settings: This study was performe d at CMH Rawalpindi and Multan from January 2000 to June 2002. Subjects: We included ten patients of glomus tumours of the temporal bone in our study. 8 out of these were females and two were males. Though most of the patients belonged to middle age group yet few were also from the younger and older groups. Interventions: All the patients underwent CT scan with and without contrast, MRI of the requisite site and carotid angiography. Results: We found that these tumours were predominantly present in females, mostly in the middle age group. Individual symptoms were studied in detail and their presence was found to be directly proportional to the increasing age of patients. Conclusion: It is concluded that due to the slow growth of this tumour the diagnosis is often delayed until it is extensive. Therefore clinicians should be more vigilant about this rare disease and must keep it in their differentials.

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