A glomus tumor (also known as a `solitary glomus tumor,` `solid glomus tumor,` or glomangioma) is a rare benign neoplasm arising from the glomus body and mainly found under the nail, on the fingertip or in the foot.{rp|670} They account for less than 2% of all soft tissue tumors. Glomus tumors were first described by Hoyer in 1877, while the f...
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a painful type of chemodectoma that is blue or red and has an arteriovenous anastomosis or cluster of blood cells; it may be found anywhere in the skin, most often near the end of a finger or toe, especially underneath the nail. Less often these are found in the stomach or the nasal cavity. chemodectoma.
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Type: Term Definitions: 1. a vascular neoplasm composed of specialized pericytes (sometimes termed glomus cells), usually in single encapsulated nodular masses that may be several millimeters in diameter and occur almost exclusively in the skin, often subungually in the upper extremity; it is exquisitely tender and may be so painful that patients v...
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A glomus tumor is a tumor composed of vascular channels surrounded by proliferating glomus cells. Typically a centimeter in diameter, glomus tumors are frequently multiple. Pink to dark purple-blue glomus tumors are usually quite painful. Other painful tumors include leiomyoma and eccrine spiradenoma.
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