A rare submucosal tumour of stomach-glomus tumour: A case report

INTRODUCTION: Glomus tumour (GT) of the stomach is a rare submucosal mesenchymal tumour. Gastric glomus tumours are clinically recognized as benign. Nevertheless, some show biological behaviour similar to that of malignant lesions and presurgical confirmation is often impossible. PRESENTATION OF CAS...

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Autores principales: Devanathan, Madhusudhanan, Jamuna Rani, S., Chandramohan, S.M., Anbarasu, Sasivannan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4446683/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25935733
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijscr.2015.04.014
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Sumario:INTRODUCTION: Glomus tumour (GT) of the stomach is a rare submucosal mesenchymal tumour. Gastric glomus tumours are clinically recognized as benign. Nevertheless, some show biological behaviour similar to that of malignant lesions and presurgical confirmation is often impossible. PRESENTATION OF CASE: A 32 year old female who presented with epigastric pain and was subsequently investigated for a antral tumour of the stomach and Wedge resection of tumour was done. Immunohistochemistry demonstrated strong positivity of smooth muscle actin and vimentin with low rate of mitosis studied by ki-67. DISCUSSION: We discuss the preoperative investigation, the diagnostic problems and the surgical treatment of the patient with gastric glomus tumour. CONCLUSION: Glomus tumours should be considered as differential diagnosis for submucosal tumours of stomach.

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