Abstract
Glomus tumors mostly arise from subcutaneous tissues or the tissues under the nail, and it is considered rare for a glomus tumor to arise from the stomach. A 52-year-old man diagnosed with a submucosal tumor of the stomach was referred to our department to undergo surgery. As a result of various examinations, we diagnosed him with carcinoid of the stomach, and performed a laparoscopic distal gastrectomy. After the resection, we investigated the specimen using imunnostaining and the diagnosis was confirmed as glomus tumor of the stomach. According to current WHO criteria for a glomus tumor, a glomus tumor of the stomach more than 2 cm long or 2 cm in diameter is classified as a malignant glomus tumor. In our review of some of the literature, we found no reports about recurrent cases of glomus tumor of the stomach in the Japanese literature, and only four recurrent cases of glomus tumor of the stomach in the foreign literature. To our knowledge, glomus tumor of the stomach is very rare and we review some citations associated with glomus tumor and discuss our case.
