Glomus Tumour

Multiple Painless Glomus Tumours

“…Slepyan (1944) compared the histology of a painful glomus tumour with that of a painless glomus tumour from the same patient, and indicated that the lesion giving rise to symptoms was the more cellular. In a series such as that reported by King (1954) it is of interest not only that the multiple lesions were all vascular but that several of the vascular lesions were painless, whereas all the cellular lesions were The present cases indicate that, since the multiple painless lesions are of the vascular type, this correlation is probably significant. However, there is no explanation why a solitary cellular painful malformation should occur in one person while multiple vascular painless lesions appear in another.…”

Juxtacortical Glomus Tumor of the Distal Femur Adjacent to the Popliteal Fossa

“…The perilesional high signal intensity without a history of trauma may have been caused by spontaneous hemorrhage, given the vascular nature of glomus tumors and the histologic evidence of previous hemorrhage within the mass. Increased vascularity surrounding glomus tumors is not rare [8] and has been seen on sonography [7]. Soft-tissue hemorrhage can be associated with other softtissue tumors, particularly malignant fibrous histiocytoma, but this is rarely seen in lesions smaller than 1.5 cm.…”

Subungual Glomus Tumor- Clinical Presentation And Treatment

“…King 6 reported pain starts long before the development of tumor. High index of suspicion, positive loves test 10 , x-ray findings can aid in diagnosis but high resolution MRI is confirmatory whereas conventional MRI is often inconclusive.…”