title: [A case of glomangioma of the stomach].
abstract: Glomus tumor of the stomach is still a rare disease. In Japan, till now, only 78 cases have been reported as far as we look over the literatures. We report a case of glomangioma of the stomach. The patient is a 44-years old female who underwent a medical examination and pointed out a gastric submucosal tumor, but she had no symptoms and admitted for operation. The endoscopical finding was a submucosal tumor as large as 4 cm, and the result of biopsy was chronic atrophic gastritis. So typical gastrectomy was performed without a definite diagnosis. In the cross section, the tumor was clearly bounded gastric mucosa by a white membrane, and the center of the tumor was spongy. By patho-histological and electro-microscopic study, we diagnosed that the tumor was glomangioma in the classification of Weiss & Enzinger. The patient was getting on well after the operation and left the hospital on the 29th day.
authors.affiliation: Department of Clinical Pathology, Kinki University School of Medicine, Osaka-sayama.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Nishio
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Furuta
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Obana
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Yamazumi
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kuroda
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Hiruma
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Hashimoto
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D005918:Glomus Tumor / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D013274:Stomach Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*