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Epistaxis as a rare presenting feature of glomus tympanicum

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 March 2006

T. Tatla
Affiliation:
Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital, London, UK.
L. E. Savy
Affiliation:
Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital, London, UK.
M. J. Wareing
Affiliation:
Department of Otorhinolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery, St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, London, UK.
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Abstract

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Glomus tumours are the most common primary neoplasms of the middle ear, typically benign and slowly progressive. Pulsatile tinnitus and ipsilateral hearing loss are the most common symptoms at presentation by far; otalgia, aural fullness and otorrhoea being less frequent. A case of primary glomus tympanicum presenting with recurrent epistaxis, previously unreported in the literature, is described and associated imaging presented.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© Royal Society of Medicine Press Limited 2003