title: It is a glomus tumor! Not at all a paronychia.
abstract: We report an interesting case of chronic obscure pain over the toe tip. This earlier was misdiagnosed as chronic paronychia and operated twice. Obvious clinical appearance and high index of suspicion rendered it a glomus tumor on histopathology. We cite here a simple technique of advancement of flap for covering scarred defects created due to nail bed excision.
authors.affiliation: Department of Orthopaedics, Civil Service Hospital, Minbhawan, Kathmandu, Nepal. laxmanrijal@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Laxman
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Rijal
authors.affiliation: Department of Orthopaedics, Civil Service Hospital, Minbhawan, Kathmandu, Nepal.
authors.forename: Pravin
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Nepal
authors.affiliation: Department of Orthopaedics, Civil Service Hospital, Minbhawan, Kathmandu, Nepal.
authors.forename: Gopal
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Sagar
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, Patan Academy of Health Sciences, Patan, Nepal.
authors.forename: Sujan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Vaidya
authors.affiliation: Institute of Medicine, Kathmandu, Nepal.
authors.forename: Anshumala
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Joshi
keywords: Glomangioma; Glomus tumor; Paronychia