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Glomus tumor of the stomach: a case report and review of the literature.
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A case of a glomus tumor of the stomach in a 71-year-old female patient who presented with dyspepsia is reported, confined to the lamina muscularis propria, it consisted of round cells with small uniform nuclei, which surrounded thin walled blood vessels.Abstract:
Glomus tumor is a benign soft tissue neoplasm which commonly affects the subungual region of the fingers. But the tumors can also arise in the other sites such as the antrum of the stomach. We are reporting a case of a glomus tumor of the stomach in a 71-year-old female patient who presented with dyspepsia. The tumor was confined to the lamina muscularis propria, it consisted of round cells with small uniform nuclei, which surrounded thin walled blood vessels. Immunohistochemistry revealed the tumor to be positive for smooth muscle actin, vimentin, calponin, h-caldesmon and negative for c-KIT, S-100, CD34, CD99, synaptophysin, chromogranin, desmin and EMA. The proliferation marker Ki-67 was positive in less than 5% of tumor cell nuclei. Glomus tumors are usually benign but malignant cases have been published. Criteria for the malignant potential of gastric glomus tumors remain poorly defined.read more
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TL;DR: Gastrointestinal glomus tumors occur almost exclusively in the stomach, and they have a good overall prognosis, but a small, unpredictable potential for malignant behavior exists.
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Ioannis Vassiliou,Aliki Tympa,Theodosios Theodosopoulos,Nikolaos Dafnios,Georgios P. Fragulidis,Andreas Koureas,Evi Kairi +6 more
TL;DR: A 72-year-old patient who presented with episodes of melena and was subsequently investigated for a tumor of the antrum of the stomach is described, revealing a 2 × 2 × 1.7 cm well circumscribed submucosal tumor extending into the muscularis propria.
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Chuang-Chi Huang,Fang-Jung Yu,Chang-Ming Jan,Sheau-Fang Yang,Yu-Ting Kuo,Jan-Sing Hsieh,Jaw-Yuan Wang +6 more
TL;DR: No definite diagnosis was reached before surgery in any of the five cases, and all of the tumors were considered likely to be benign lesions, and Clinicians who treat such patients should be aware of this problem.
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Removal of glomus tumor in the lower tracheal segment with a flexible bronchoscope: report of two cases.
TL;DR: In patients with tracheal glomus tumor who have poor surgical tolerance or are not willing to receive an open surgery, flexible bronchoscopic tumor removal can be a good alternative to relieve the airway obstruction symptoms.