title: Glomangioma of the lung: a case report and review of the literature.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Glomangiomas are rare soft tissue tumors originating from the perivascular tissue. The most common localization is in the dermis of the extremities, with a few reports of respiratory tract involvement.
  
  
  METHODS
  We present the case of a 48-year-old Caucasian female patient with a glomangioma in her left lung. It was diagnosed incidentally as a coin lesion in a chest X-ray performed during preoperative work-up for a gastric Roux-en-Y bypass for alimentary obesity. A computed tomography scan of her chest revealed a lesion in her upper left lung lobe 31mm in diameter. After resection, a histopathological examination presented typical signs of a glomangioma, originating from the pulmonary parenchyma.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Glomangiomas of the lung are extremely rare. However, whenever incidental lesions in the lung parenchyma are found, glomangioma should be taken into diagnostic consideration. To the best of our knowledge, signs of malignancy have not previously been reported in the literature. In fact, this tumor entity shows benign behavior, with a low potential for recurrence after complete resection.
authors.affiliation: Department of General, Visceral and Thoracic Surgery, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, University of Hamburg, Martinistrasse 52, 20246 Hamburg, Germany. fgebauer@uke.de.
authors.forename: Florian
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Gebauer
authors.forename: Alexander
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Quaas
authors.forename: Jakob R
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Izbicki
authors.forename: Yogesh K
authors.initials: YK
authors.lastname: Vashist