Key clinical message
Glomus tumors rarely involve small intestine, with only 8 cases reported
in the English literature up to date. In this paper, we presented the
ninth case of small intestine glomus tumor in a 30-year-old female
patient and analyzed associated clinical, radiographic, endoscopic and
pathologic findings.
Abstract
Glomus tumors are exceedingly rare
tumors arising from the normal glomus body. Only a very few cases
located in the small intestine were reported to date. Here, we present a
case of glomus tumor of the jejunum in a 30-year-old female patient, and
discuss its clinical, imaging, and pathologic features.
Keywords: glomus tumor, small intestine, case report
1 INTRODUCTION
Glomus
tumors (GTs) account for approximately 2% of all soft tissue
neoplasms.1 However, rare visceral GTs do occur. GTs
within the gastrointestinal tract have been reported to usually occur at
the gastric, especially gastric antrum. The vast majority of gastric GTs
follow a benign clinical course, without histologic or clinical evidence
of malignancy.2 GTs rarely involve small intestine,
with only 8 cases reported in the English literature, among which 4
cases present malignant features.3-5 Here, we report a
patient with glomus tumor of the jejunum and review the literature on
the clinicopathologic features, diagnosis and treatment.