Case report demonstrates effective surgical planning for neoplasm in a female patient, indicating diagnosis may reduce complications.
Glomus tympanicum is a hypervascular, benign neoplasm with a slow rate of growth. The incidence of this pathology is higher in females than in males and mainly occurs in the fifth to sixth decade of life. Pulsatile tinnitus and hearing loss are the main clinical features. We present the case of a 70-year-old female patient who was admitted to the otolaryngology service with a 1-month history of epistaxis and equilibrium disorder that caused a ground-level fall.
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