Orbital glomus tumor in an Asian patient

BACKGROUND: This report describes a recurrent orbital glomus tumor in an Asian patient. CASE PRESENTATION: A healthy 50-year-old Korean man had progressive right exophthalmos and a soft mass on his right lower lid for 6 months. We evaluated the mass using CT and MRI, and performed excisional biopsy...

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Autores principales: Chang, Minwook, Lee, Youngseok, Baek, Sehyun, Lee, Tae Soo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2012
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3536637/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23216695
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2415-12-62
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author Chang, Minwook
Lee, Youngseok
Baek, Sehyun
Lee, Tae Soo
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Baek, Sehyun
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description BACKGROUND: This report describes a recurrent orbital glomus tumor in an Asian patient. CASE PRESENTATION: A healthy 50-year-old Korean man had progressive right exophthalmos and a soft mass on his right lower lid for 6 months. We evaluated the mass using CT and MRI, and performed excisional biopsy and pathologic examination. Pathologically, the mass was a glomus tumor. Although proptosis of the right eye decreased, one month after surgery it increased to almost the same level as before surgery. CONCLUSIONS: This is the first report of an Asian patient with an orbital glomus tumor that demonstrated rapid re-growth after incision without pain or visual problems.
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spelling pubmed-35366372013-01-08 Orbital glomus tumor in an Asian patient Chang, Minwook Lee, Youngseok Baek, Sehyun Lee, Tae Soo BMC Ophthalmol Case Report BACKGROUND: This report describes a recurrent orbital glomus tumor in an Asian patient. CASE PRESENTATION: A healthy 50-year-old Korean man had progressive right exophthalmos and a soft mass on his right lower lid for 6 months. We evaluated the mass using CT and MRI, and performed excisional biopsy and pathologic examination. Pathologically, the mass was a glomus tumor. Although proptosis of the right eye decreased, one month after surgery it increased to almost the same level as before surgery. CONCLUSIONS: This is the first report of an Asian patient with an orbital glomus tumor that demonstrated rapid re-growth after incision without pain or visual problems. BioMed Central 2012-12-05 /pmc/articles/PMC3536637/ /pubmed/23216695 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2415-12-62 Text en Copyright ©2012 Chang et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_short Orbital glomus tumor in an Asian patient
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3536637/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23216695
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2415-12-62
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