Surgical inferences from study of temporal bones with glomus jugulare tumor.

Over the past few years, considerable advances have been made in the surgical treatment of glomus jugulare tumors. The long-term results of such surgery for cure of these tumors has yet to be established, however. We have reviewed the temporal bones of two patients who had glomus jugulare tumors. Such study provides a special opportunity to evaluate the major critical areas of involvement of these tumors, which bears on the long-term results of surgery, and is important in developing treatment to cure these benign, though aggressive, tumors.