Female-to-male ratio may be as high as 6:1. The glomus jugulare tumor is the most common paraganglioma of the head and neck followed by carotid body and intravagal paragangliomas. They are ...

7). Since chemodectomas presenting in the neck may have arisen from the carotid body, the vagal body or the glomus jugulare complex, accurate differential diagnosis is sometimes difficult.