Glomus tumor of the hallux. Review of the literature and report of two cases

Polo, C. Gil; Borda, David Leonardo Mantilla; Poggio, Daniel; Asunción, Jordi; Peidró, L.

doi:10.1016/j.fas.2011.05.005

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“…Malignant glomus tumour represents 1% of all glomus tumour cases1 19 20 and may probably arise from an exceptional rare dedifferentiation of benign glomus tumour 21. Folpe et al ,22 in their study of 52 cases in 2001, tried to list histopathological criteria for malignancy: size superior to 2 cm, deep location, moderate to high nuclear grade, increased mitotic rate (>5 per 50 high power field) or presence of atypical mitotic figures.…”

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Glomus tumour of the fourth toe: case discussion and review of literature

Romanos¹,

Delfi²,

Hubballah

et al. 2019

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Glomus tumour of the fourth toe: case discussion and review of literature

Romanos¹,

Delfi²,

Hubballah

et al. 2019

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“…[11]. In case of erosion of the lateral part of the bone, evident on an X-ray scan, glomus tumor can be suspected [12]. MR imaging and US are used to delineate the size and precise location of the tumor.…”

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Glomus tumor - a case report

2016

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Introduction Glomus tumor is a neuromyoarterial tumor. It is a rare tumor which accounts for about 2% of all hand tumors. The diagnosis is based on the triad of symptoms, clinical examination which includes three tests, magnetic resonance imaging, and ultrasound imaging. The most common treatment is surgical excision, using transungual or lateral subperiosteal approach. Sclerotherapy and radiotherapy may be the treatments of choice, but they are less effective. The recurrence rate is high -from 5% to 50%. Case Outline We diagnosed a glomus tumor of 1 cm in diameter in the distal phalanx of the fourth finger of the right hand in a 30-year-old woman. She had been visiting different physicians for more than two years and had been variously diagnosed. We performed a biopsy of the tumor, which was bleeding profusely during the procedure. Upon biopsy results, the tumor was excised with transungual approach. Two and a half months after the procedure the patient was feeling well. Conclusion There should be higher awareness of this tumor in order to diagnose it more easily and treat it accordingly, and thus alleviate the severe pain which the tumor causes. When it is considered as the possible cause of the lesion, the diagnosing is easier and treatment is immediate.

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“…Glomus tumors are benign lesions that arise from modified smooth muscle cells of the glomus body and represent less than 2% of soft tissue neoplasms . The disproportionate number of cases in the distal extremities and relative infrequency of visceral involvement make it easy to overlook or confuse with more commonly occurring lesions in these anatomic locations .…”

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“…Glomus tumors are benign neoplasms derived from the glomus body, which have epithelioid morphology yet possess ultrastructural and immunohistochemical features of smooth muscle differentiation . They typically occur as solitary lesions of soft tissue, particularly the subungual area of the digits . The lesion represents a neoplastic proliferation of glomus cells in the Sucquet‐Hoyer canal, an arteriovenous anastomosis that regulates arterial blood flow and is important in temperature regulation .…”

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Cytopathologic diagnosis of esophageal glomus tumor presenting as an incidental posterior mediastinal mass in an 80‐year‐old male

Moore

Stewart

2013

Diagnostic Cytopathology

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Endoscopic ultrasound guided fine-needle aspiration (FNA) of the upper gastrointestinal tract presents a diagnostic challenge to cytopathologists due to the broad differential diagnosis and morphologic overlap between various entities in this location. We report here an incidentally discovered case of esophageal glomus tumor presenting as a posterior mediastinal mass in an 80-year old male. Glomus tumor is a rare soft tissue neoplasm with bland epithelioid morphology and cytoplasmic granularity. Literature review reveals only 6 published cases of esophageal glomus tumor in the general pathology literature. To our knowledge, this is the first report in the English literature to describe FNA cytology of an esophageal glomus tumor. This rare case presentation provides the opportunity to review the differential diagnosis for lesions of the upper gastrointestinal tract and their appearance on FNA in order to clarify an entity that is uncommon in everyday cytology practice.

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Glomus tumor of the hallux. Review of the literature and report of two cases

Cited by 23 publications

References 17 publications

Glomus tumour of the fourth toe: case discussion and review of literature

Glomus tumour of the fourth toe: case discussion and review of literature

Glomus tumor - a case report

Cytopathologic diagnosis of esophageal glomus tumor presenting as an incidental posterior mediastinal mass in an 80‐year‐old male

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