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.