[Diagnosis of glomus caroticum tumors with transvenous digital subtraction angiography].

This paper demonstrates the diagnostic value of transvenous DSA in carotid body tumours. Angiographic results in 6 patients show that this method was of diagnostic significance in all cases; in 5 of 6 patients the angiographic diagnosis was confirmed by subsequent surgery. Transvenous DSA, the invasiveness of which is only minimal, is useful in outpatients for identifying obscure palpable tumours of the lateral neck. Unnecessary or even highly dangerous surgical diagnostic interventions can thus be prevented.