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Unusual glomus tumor of the lower leg: A case report

BACKGROUND: Glomus tumors are rare neoplasms, usually found on the fingers or toes. Glomus tumours that occur in the lower leg are even rarer and is likely to be misdiagnosed or underdiagnosed. This article will document the diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up of a rare glomus tumor of the lower leg...

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Autores principales: Wang, Han-Yu, Duan, Ping, Chen, Hui, Pan, Zhen-Yu
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Baishideng Publishing Group Inc 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9048558/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35611196
http://dx.doi.org/10.12998/wjcc.v10.i11.3485
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author Wang, Han-Yu
Duan, Ping
Chen, Hui
Pan, Zhen-Yu
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description BACKGROUND: Glomus tumors are rare neoplasms, usually found on the fingers or toes. Glomus tumours that occur in the lower leg are even rarer and is likely to be misdiagnosed or underdiagnosed. This article will document the diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up of a rare glomus tumor of the lower leg, which had been misdiagnosed for up to 15 years. CASE SUMMARY: The patient was a A 36-year-old woman who had suffered from localized pain in her left lower leg for 15 years. After a complete physical examination, a glomus tumor on her lower leg was considered and removed surgically. The specimen was pathologically diagnosed as a glomus tumor. There was no relapse at a 4-year follow-up. CONCLUSION: Correct diagnosis and complete removal of the glomus tumor is important.
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spelling pubmed-90485582022-05-23 Unusual glomus tumor of the lower leg: A case report Wang, Han-Yu Duan, Ping Chen, Hui Pan, Zhen-Yu World J Clin Cases Case Report BACKGROUND: Glomus tumors are rare neoplasms, usually found on the fingers or toes. Glomus tumours that occur in the lower leg are even rarer and is likely to be misdiagnosed or underdiagnosed. This article will document the diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up of a rare glomus tumor of the lower leg, which had been misdiagnosed for up to 15 years. CASE SUMMARY: The patient was a A 36-year-old woman who had suffered from localized pain in her left lower leg for 15 years. After a complete physical examination, a glomus tumor on her lower leg was considered and removed surgically. The specimen was pathologically diagnosed as a glomus tumor. There was no relapse at a 4-year follow-up. CONCLUSION: Correct diagnosis and complete removal of the glomus tumor is important. Baishideng Publishing Group Inc 2022-04-16 2022-04-16 /pmc/articles/PMC9048558/ /pubmed/35611196 http://dx.doi.org/10.12998/wjcc.v10.i11.3485 Text en ©The Author(s) 2022. Published by Baishideng Publishing Group Inc. All rights reserved. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This article is an open-access article that was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: https://creativecommons.org/Licenses/by-nc/4.0/
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Wang, Han-Yu
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Chen, Hui
Pan, Zhen-Yu
Unusual glomus tumor of the lower leg: A case report
title Unusual glomus tumor of the lower leg: A case report
title_full Unusual glomus tumor of the lower leg: A case report
title_fullStr Unusual glomus tumor of the lower leg: A case report
title_full_unstemmed Unusual glomus tumor of the lower leg: A case report
title_short Unusual glomus tumor of the lower leg: A case report
title_sort unusual glomus tumor of the lower leg: a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9048558/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35611196
http://dx.doi.org/10.12998/wjcc.v10.i11.3485
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