Gastric Glomus Tumour Misdiagnosed as Gastric Carcinoid: An Unfamiliar Entity with Aids to Diagnosis and Review of Literature
Journal Title: Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research - Year 2017, Vol 11, Issue 5
Abstract
Glomus Tumour (GT) is a rare mesenchymal tumour of the stomach with Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumour (GIST), leiomyoma and schwannoma being far more common and comprising more than 90% of all gastric mesenchymal tumours. As glomus bodies are located in the peripheral parts of the human body, these tumours are peripherally located, classically the subungual region, hands, feet and trunk. While being evaluated for renal problems, a middle aged lady was incidentally found to have a gastric tumour. This was submucosal in location and was excised by a wedge resection and reported elsewhere as carcinoid tumour. The patient came to our hospital for further management. The biopsy was reviewed here and the modified diagnosis given was GT, confirmed by panel of immunohistochemistry. Two years after regular clinical follow up the patient is free of disease or any distant metastasis. In this paper the authors discuss the potential pitfalls, differential diagnoses and diagnostic clues that help in diagnosing this gastric tumour.
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Tanush Vig, mandeep Singh Bindra, Ramani Manoj Kumar, Suceena Alexander
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- EP ID EP342092
- DOI 10.7860/JCDR/2017/27968.9912
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