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Clinical features

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The characteristic features of glomus tumours are:

  • tinnitus in time with the arterial pulse, conductive or sensorineural deafness
  • facial paralysis
  • cranial nerve palsies - IX to XII
  • a vascular polyp may be seen in the external auditory meatus
  • a palpable mass below and anterior to the mastoid eminence
  • a bruit may be heard over the mass

Rarely with glomus tumours there may be:

  • a phrenic nerve palsy
  • facial numbness
  • a Horner's syndrome
  • cerebellar ataxia
  • temporal lobe epilepsy if the tumour erodes the base of skull

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