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“Pink glow”: A new sign for the diagnosis of glomus tumor on ultraviolet light dermoscopy

Glomus tumors are usually benign hamartomas, which are painful, small, and uncommon. They are usually subungal in location but may occur at other sites. A female patient presented to the outpatient department with painful swelling over the nail matrix of her right index finger. Here, we describe the...

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Autores principales: Thatte, Sarvesh S., Chikhalkar, Siddhi B., Khopkar, Uday S.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4738509/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26904443
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2229-5178.171041
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description Glomus tumors are usually benign hamartomas, which are painful, small, and uncommon. They are usually subungal in location but may occur at other sites. A female patient presented to the outpatient department with painful swelling over the nail matrix of her right index finger. Here, we describe the use of a videodermosope having white light, polarized light, and ultraviolet (UV) light in the localization of glomus tumors that revealed a pinkish glow on UV light examination suggesting the vascular nature of the tumor. Thus, videodermoscopy can be used as an outpatient department procedure to confirm the diagnosis of glomus tumors.
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spelling pubmed-47385092016-02-22 “Pink glow”: A new sign for the diagnosis of glomus tumor on ultraviolet light dermoscopy Thatte, Sarvesh S. Chikhalkar, Siddhi B. Khopkar, Uday S. Indian Dermatol Online J Case Report Glomus tumors are usually benign hamartomas, which are painful, small, and uncommon. They are usually subungal in location but may occur at other sites. A female patient presented to the outpatient department with painful swelling over the nail matrix of her right index finger. Here, we describe the use of a videodermosope having white light, polarized light, and ultraviolet (UV) light in the localization of glomus tumors that revealed a pinkish glow on UV light examination suggesting the vascular nature of the tumor. Thus, videodermoscopy can be used as an outpatient department procedure to confirm the diagnosis of glomus tumors. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2015-12 /pmc/articles/PMC4738509/ /pubmed/26904443 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2229-5178.171041 Text en Copyright: © Indian Dermatology Online Journal http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4738509/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26904443
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2229-5178.171041
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