Multiple Painful Glomus Tumors of the SkinViews on Histogenesis: Case Report
RAJ K. GUPTA, MD;
ENID F. GILBERT, BS;
ROBERT S. ENGLISH, MD
Arch Dermatol. 1965;92(6):670-673.
Abstract
A case of multiple painful glomus tumors is reported in a 20-year-old woman.
Multiple glomus tumors, although rare, have usually been unassociated with pain. The painful character of the lesions in the case presented above is explained on the basis of entrapment of myelinated nerve fibers in the stroma of the tumor.
The various views on the histogenesis of such tumors are presented.
It is believed that the tumor is probably related to Zimmermann's pericytes, differing, however, from a hemangiopericytoma in having a definite organoid pattern and lacking a malignant potential.
Author Affiliations
MORGANTOWN, WVA
From the departments of pathology and dermatology, West Virginia University School of Medicine. Dr. Gupta is now at the State University of New York, School of Medicine and E. J. Meyer Memorial Hospital.
Footnotes
Accepted for publication Aug 5, 1965.
Reprint requests to 462 Grider St, Buffalo, NY 14215 (Dr. Gupta).
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