Glomus tumor differential diagnosis
Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Soujanya Thummathati, MBBS [2]
Overview
Solitary glomus tumors must be differentiated from leiomyoma and eccrine spiradenoma. Multiple glomus tumors must be differentiated from other diseases such as cavernous hemangioma and blue rubber-bleb nevus syndrome.
Differential diagnosis
The presence of pain in most cases means the differential diagnosis must include other painful tumors that can occur in the digits:[1]
- Neuroma
- Eccrine spiradenoma
- Leiomyoma
- Ganglion
- Exostosis
- Causalgia
- Gouty arthritis
- Calcinosis
- Solitary glomus tumors must be differentiated from the following:[2]
- Leiomyoma
- Eccrine spiradenoma
- Multiple glomus tumors must be differentiated from other diseases such as:[2][3][4]
- Cavernous hemangioma
- Blue rubber-bleb nevus syndrome
- Glomus tumors must also be differentiated from the following:[4]
- Blue nevi
- Dermatologic manifestations of Kaposi sarcoma
- Dermatologic manifestations of schwannoma
- Maffucci syndrome
- Solid and cystic hidradenoma
- Myopericytoma
- Myofibromatosis (myofibroma)
- Angiosarcoma
- Dermatofibroma
- Capillary hemangioma
References
- ↑ Rohrich RJ, Hochstein LM, Millwee RH (1994). "Subungual glomus tumors: an algorithmic approach". Ann Plast Surg. 33 (3): 300–4. PMID 7985967.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Lee W, Kwon SB, Cho SH, Eo SR, Kwon C (2015). "Glomus tumor of the hand". Arch Plast Surg. 42 (3): 295–301. doi:10.5999/aps.2015.42.3.295. PMC 4439588. PMID 26015884.
- ↑ Chatterjee JS, Youssef AH, Brown RM, Nishikawa H (2005). "Congenital nodular multiple glomangioma: a case report". J Clin Pathol. 58 (1): 102–3. doi:10.1136/jcp.2003.014324. PMC 1770555. PMID 15623496.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Glomus tumor. Libre pathology. http://librepathology.org/wiki/index.php/Glomus_tumour Accessed on February 1, 2016.