Journal of Vascular Surgery Cases and Innovative Techniques (Jun 2019)

A rare location of the glomus tumor in the abdominal aorta

  • Ilya Khantalin, MD,
  • Alain Rind, MD,
  • Lilia Mahjoubi, MD,
  • Jean-Pierre Valverde, MD,
  • Carla Fernandez, MD,
  • Eric Braunberger, PhD

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 5, no. 2
pp. 163 – 166

Abstract

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Glomus tumors are rare, mostly benign, and often superficial tumors that commonly occur on the upper and lower extremities. Whereas other locations have been described in the literature, we report the first case of glomus tumor in the abdominal aorta in a 21-year-old patient. Keywords: Glomus tumor, Vessel tumor, Aortic disease