A Rare Cause of Calf Pain: Extradigital Glomus Tumor: Case Report

Unusual Location of Glomus Tumors

“…Freire, et al [15] and Saka, et al [17] were in accordance with the literature regarding sex and age, Chiang et al [18] only for the sex, while both our case and Glazebrook, et al 2010 [16] case was female of 62 years old and 50 years old respectively.…”

“…We only found 5 studies: 4 case reports [15,16] and 1 retrospective serie [17] of certain intramuscular glomus tumor of the calf (Table 1).…”

“…Saka, et al [17] showed a case of 25 years old male patient with a single intramuscular glomus tumor of the calf of 4mm in size, with history of previous trauma.…”

“…Such risk factors were not reported by our patient, Freire, et al [15] and Chiang, et al [18] patient, Glazebrook, et al 2011 [19] patients. While Glazebrook et al 2010 [16] reported a large burn to the area from a motorcycle tailpipe, and Saka, et al [17] reported a history of previous trauma.…”