Glomus tumor

Bone
Vascular tumors of bone
Glomus tumor

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Definition / general | Case reports

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Definition / general

Bone involvement usually secondary to erosion of soft tissue (subungual) tumor
Rarely is a primary bone tumor, usually in terminal phalanx

Case reports

30 year old woman with glomus tumor of the coccyx (Arch Pathol Lab Med 1991;115:78)