Chronic Long Standing Shoulder Pain, Caused by Glomus Tumor.
Chronic shoulder pain can be caused by muscle, bone and joint inflammatory and tumoral lesions; however, chronic shoulder pain secondary to benign vascular tumor called glomus tumor is an extremely rare occurrence. To the best of our knowledge less than 15 cases of chronic shoulder pain have been reported secondary to glomus tumor. Herein we report our experience with a young lady who presented with chronic shoulder pain which turned out to be caused by a soft tissue glomus tumor. This case has also been unique because if its large size (about 5 cm in greatest diameter).
Department of Pathology, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences , Iran ; Transplant Research Center, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences , Iran.
Bita
B
Geramizadeh
Department of Pathology, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences , Iran.
Aseih
A
Khorshidi
Department of Surgery, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences , Iran.
Hossein
H
Hodjati
Glomus tumor; chronic shoulder pain