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Glomus tumor in the floor of the mouth: a case report and review of the literature

BACKGROUND: Glomus tumors are rare benign neoplasms that usually occur in the upper and lower extremities. Oral cavity involvement is exceptionally rare, with only a few cases reported to date. CASE PRESENTATION: A 24-year-old woman with complaints of swelling in the left floor of her mouth for 6 mo...

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Autores principales: Zou, Haixiao, Song, Li, Jia, Mengqi, Wang, Li, Sun, Yanfang
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6180582/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30305096
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12957-018-1503-6
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author Zou, Haixiao
Song, Li
Jia, Mengqi
Wang, Li
Sun, Yanfang
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Song, Li
Jia, Mengqi
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Sun, Yanfang
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description BACKGROUND: Glomus tumors are rare benign neoplasms that usually occur in the upper and lower extremities. Oral cavity involvement is exceptionally rare, with only a few cases reported to date. CASE PRESENTATION: A 24-year-old woman with complaints of swelling in the left floor of her mouth for 6 months was referred to our institution. Her swallowing function was slightly affected; however, she did not have pain or tongue paralysis. Enhanced computed tomography revealed a 2.8 × 1.8 × 2.1 cm-sized well-defined, solid, heterogeneous nodule above the mylohyoid muscle. The mandible appeared to be uninvolved. The patient underwent surgery via an intraoral approach; histopathological examination revealed a glomus tumor. The patient has had no evidence of recurrence over 4 years of follow-up. CONCLUSIONS: Glomus tumors should be considered when patients present with painless nodules in the floor of the mouth.
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spelling pubmed-61805822018-10-18 Glomus tumor in the floor of the mouth: a case report and review of the literature Zou, Haixiao Song, Li Jia, Mengqi Wang, Li Sun, Yanfang World J Surg Oncol Case Report BACKGROUND: Glomus tumors are rare benign neoplasms that usually occur in the upper and lower extremities. Oral cavity involvement is exceptionally rare, with only a few cases reported to date. CASE PRESENTATION: A 24-year-old woman with complaints of swelling in the left floor of her mouth for 6 months was referred to our institution. Her swallowing function was slightly affected; however, she did not have pain or tongue paralysis. Enhanced computed tomography revealed a 2.8 × 1.8 × 2.1 cm-sized well-defined, solid, heterogeneous nodule above the mylohyoid muscle. The mandible appeared to be uninvolved. The patient underwent surgery via an intraoral approach; histopathological examination revealed a glomus tumor. The patient has had no evidence of recurrence over 4 years of follow-up. CONCLUSIONS: Glomus tumors should be considered when patients present with painless nodules in the floor of the mouth. BioMed Central 2018-10-10 /pmc/articles/PMC6180582/ /pubmed/30305096 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12957-018-1503-6 Text en © The Author(s). 2018 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Song, Li
Jia, Mengqi
Wang, Li
Sun, Yanfang
Glomus tumor in the floor of the mouth: a case report and review of the literature
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title_full Glomus tumor in the floor of the mouth: a case report and review of the literature
title_fullStr Glomus tumor in the floor of the mouth: a case report and review of the literature
title_full_unstemmed Glomus tumor in the floor of the mouth: a case report and review of the literature
title_short Glomus tumor in the floor of the mouth: a case report and review of the literature
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6180582/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30305096
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12957-018-1503-6
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