Tumor of glomus jugulare report of a case.

A typical case of glomus jugulare tumor was presented. This 42-year-old man suffering from a left-sided impaired hearing progressive over a five 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.