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Gastric Glomus Tumor Diagnosed by Upper Endoscopy

Gastric glomus tumors (GGTs) are benign tumors that typically occur in the submucosa of the gastric wall. Glomus tumors typically occur in the subungual region of the finger and rarely manifest in the stomach. Diagnosis is challenging as these tumors lack specific clinical features, radiographic fin...

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Autores principales: Brotherton, Tim, Khneizer, Gebran, Nwankwo, Eugene, Yasin, Irfan, Giacaman, Mike
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8788387/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35106240
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.20703
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author Brotherton, Tim
Khneizer, Gebran
Nwankwo, Eugene
Yasin, Irfan
Giacaman, Mike
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description Gastric glomus tumors (GGTs) are benign tumors that typically occur in the submucosa of the gastric wall. Glomus tumors typically occur in the subungual region of the finger and rarely manifest in the stomach. Diagnosis is challenging as these tumors lack specific clinical features, radiographic findings, and endoscopic findings. In prior cases, endoscopic ultrasound with fine-needle aspiration has been utilized to make a pre-operative diagnosis. In our case, pathology from general endoscopy was consistent with a GGT. Thus, our patient was accurately diagnosed by esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD) with conventional biopsy.
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spelling pubmed-87883872022-01-31 Gastric Glomus Tumor Diagnosed by Upper Endoscopy Brotherton, Tim Khneizer, Gebran Nwankwo, Eugene Yasin, Irfan Giacaman, Mike Cureus Internal Medicine Gastric glomus tumors (GGTs) are benign tumors that typically occur in the submucosa of the gastric wall. Glomus tumors typically occur in the subungual region of the finger and rarely manifest in the stomach. Diagnosis is challenging as these tumors lack specific clinical features, radiographic findings, and endoscopic findings. In prior cases, endoscopic ultrasound with fine-needle aspiration has been utilized to make a pre-operative diagnosis. In our case, pathology from general endoscopy was consistent with a GGT. Thus, our patient was accurately diagnosed by esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD) with conventional biopsy. Cureus 2021-12-26 /pmc/articles/PMC8788387/ /pubmed/35106240 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.20703 Text en Copyright © 2021, Brotherton et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Brotherton, Tim
Khneizer, Gebran
Nwankwo, Eugene
Yasin, Irfan
Giacaman, Mike
Gastric Glomus Tumor Diagnosed by Upper Endoscopy
title Gastric Glomus Tumor Diagnosed by Upper Endoscopy
title_full Gastric Glomus Tumor Diagnosed by Upper Endoscopy
title_fullStr Gastric Glomus Tumor Diagnosed by Upper Endoscopy
title_full_unstemmed Gastric Glomus Tumor Diagnosed by Upper Endoscopy
title_short Gastric Glomus Tumor Diagnosed by Upper Endoscopy
title_sort gastric glomus tumor diagnosed by upper endoscopy
topic Internal Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8788387/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35106240
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.20703
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