glomus tumor/吐き気

We have treated 14 patients with glomus tumor during the 4 years (of 1993 to 1997) using Leksell Gamma Knife radiosurgery. The male: female ratio was 1:3.7, and the mean age 48.6 years (range 22-75 years). The mean tumor volume was 5.5 cm3 (range 0.7-11.3 cm3). The mean maximum dose was 37.4 Gy

Glomus tumors are benign soft tissue neoplasms that usually arise in the skin of the extremities; however, those tumors are sometimes located in other sites such as gastrointestinal (GIS), respiratory, and genital tracts. Gastrointestinal glomus tumors are mostly located in the gastric antrum. The

This paper reports a case of glomus tumor of stomach from a male patient, 58 years old, with the chief complaint of nausea and vomiting after meal. This tumor was at the anterior wall of the antrum near the lesser curvature. By light microscopy, it was composed of glomus tumor cells and abundant

Primary glomus tumors are extremely rare in the liver. To this date, only two cases of primary glomus tumors of the liver have been reported in the literature. This report is the third case of this specified tumor. The patient was a 50 year-old Iranian woman who presented with a history of