Glomus Tumor Presenting as Raynaud's Phenomenon

Glomus tumors are rare tumors that often include hands and feet; they present characteristically with paroxysmal pain, exquisite point tenderness, and cold sensitivity. Such diagnosis needs to be confirmed by imaging like ultrasound and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Surgical excision is the trea...

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Autores principales: Abdelrahman, M. H., Hammoudeh, M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2012
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3395409/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22811722
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/380540
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description Glomus tumors are rare tumors that often include hands and feet; they present characteristically with paroxysmal pain, exquisite point tenderness, and cold sensitivity. Such diagnosis needs to be confirmed by imaging like ultrasound and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Surgical excision is the treatment of choice for glomus tumors. There are only few case reports of glomus tumors in association with Raynaud's phenomenon; this is considered to be the 4th case.
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spelling pubmed-33954092012-07-18 Glomus Tumor Presenting as Raynaud's Phenomenon Abdelrahman, M. H. Hammoudeh, M. Case Rep Med Case Report Glomus tumors are rare tumors that often include hands and feet; they present characteristically with paroxysmal pain, exquisite point tenderness, and cold sensitivity. Such diagnosis needs to be confirmed by imaging like ultrasound and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Surgical excision is the treatment of choice for glomus tumors. There are only few case reports of glomus tumors in association with Raynaud's phenomenon; this is considered to be the 4th case. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2012 2012-06-28 /pmc/articles/PMC3395409/ /pubmed/22811722 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/380540 Text en Copyright © 2012 M. H. Abdelrahman and M. Hammoudeh. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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