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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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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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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. |
spellingShingle | Case Report Zou, Haixiao Song, Li Jia, Mengqi Wang, Li Sun, Yanfang Glomus tumor in the floor of the mouth: a case report and review of the literature |
title | Glomus tumor in the floor of the mouth: a case report and review of the literature |
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 |
title_sort | glomus tumor in the floor of the mouth: a case report and review of the literature |
topic | Case Report |
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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