title: Multiple glomus tumours.
abstract: A patient with multiple, synchronous, non-familial head and neck paragangliomas is reported. There were three primary neoplasms, a glomus tympanicum and glomus vagale on the right side and a glomus tumour of the carotid body on the left. Such a combination has never been reported previously. The reports of all the series with paragangliomas in the literature, as well as the reports of single cases with multiple tumours during the last three decades, are reviewed. Specific problems in diagnosis and management of multiple glomus tumours are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Tzanion General Hospital, Piraeus, Greece.
authors.forename: D G
authors.initials: DG
authors.lastname: Balatsouras
authors.forename: P N
authors.initials: PN
authors.lastname: Eliopoulos
authors.forename: C N
authors.initials: CN
authors.lastname: Economou
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002345:Carotid Body Tumor / Q000175:diagnosis; D003390:Cranial Nerve Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis; D004428:Ear Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery; D004432:Ear, Middle; D005260:Female; D005918:Glomus Tumor / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D009378:Neoplasms, Multiple Primary / Q000175:diagnosis*; D010235:Paraganglioma / Q000175:diagnosis; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014630:Vagus Nerve