A Case of Glomus Tumor of teh Stomach Examined by Endoscopic Ultrasonography

Abstract

A 51-year-old male underwent medical examination and was found to have an abnormality in gastric antrum. The patient visited to our department for more detailed examination. Gastric X-ray and endscopic findings revealed a submucosal tumor, approximately 3cm in diameter, with smooth surface, and with bridging fold.
Endscopic ultrasonography indicated that intratumor ununiform pattern and the tumor was included in the muscle layer. Abdominal CT showed contrast enhacement of the tumor. These findings led us to suspect the mass as malignant tumor and partial gastrectomy was performed. Histological findings showed typical glomus tumors are composed of blood vessels lined by normal endothelial cells and surrounded by sheets of round to oval tumor cells without atypia.