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A 38 year old female was admitted to this hos-pital with the complaint of discomfort of upper abdomen lasting for one and a half year. She was found a semicubic tumor, which was covered with normal gastric mucosa, at the posterior wall of antrum of the stomach by the radiologic as well as endocopic examination. Bridging folds of mucosa were also seen. These findings indicated submucosal tumor of the stomach. Gastrectomy was performed immediately.The removed stomach revealed a tumor locating in submucosa and the tumor was semicubic in shape measuring 3.5×3.0×1.2 cm in size. The consistency of the tumor was elastic soft. Histologically the tu-mor showed sheetlike arrangement of glomus cells intermingled with vascular channels. In the literature 17 cases of glomus tumor origi-nated from the stomach have been reported in Ja-pan. Their age ranged from 28 to 74 years old. Their sexes were distributed about equally. The most of the patients complained some kinds of gas-tric distress, such as epigastric pain, discomfort, nausea and vomiting. These tumors varied from 0.8 to 7.0 (mostly 1.0 to 4.0) cm in greatest diameter (localized in submucosa of the antrum) and their consistency was usually elastic soft. Ulcer of the mucosa overlying the tumor was noted in only one case recorded in the literature.
