Publication at First Faculty of Medicine |
2011
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 of the stomach in a 71-year-old female patient who presented with dyspepsia.The tumor was confined to the lamina muscularis propia, in consisted of round cells with small uniform nuclei, which surrounded thin walled blood vessels. Glomus timors are usually benign but malognant cases have been published.
Crireria for the malignant potential of gastic glomus tumors remain poorly defined.