Malignant glomus tumour- A case report

Shaista Manan Vasenwala; Aftab A. Iraqi; Shamshad Ahmad; Lubna Khan; Sufian Zaheer; Reema Manan Vasenwala

Malignant glomus tumour- A case report

Shaista Manan Vasenwala
, Aftab A. Iraqi
, Shamshad Ahmad
, Lubna Khan
, Sufian Zaheer^*
, Reema Manan Vasenwala

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Glomus tumours are usually benign neoplasms of glomus bodies. Here we report a rare case of malignant glomus tumour of soft tissue. The tumour was 8 cm in size, infiltrating deep tissue, with nuclear atypia, high mitotic activity (6/HPF), atypical mitosis and showed recurrence, thus fulfilling all the criteria of malignancy.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	40-41
Number of pages	2
Journal	Indian Journal of Pathology and Microbiology
Volume	49
Issue number	1
State	Published - Jan 2006
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Glomus tumour

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Microbiology (medical)

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