Sunday, March 6, 2011

Clinical and pathological characteristics of extradigital and digital glomus tumours: a retrospective comparative study

Abstract

Background  Most glomus tumours are located in the digits, especially in subungual areas. Less is known, however, about the clinical characteristics of extradigital glomus tumours.


Objectives  The aim of this study was to characterize extradigital glomus tumours and compare their clinical, pathological and immunohistochemical characteristics with those of digital glomus tumours.


Methods  We retrospectively reviewed the charts of 110 patients with digital and 42 patients with extradigital glomus tumours, treated at a single centre from 1991 to 2010. We also investigated the immunohistochemical expression of substance P and TRPV1 in the biopsy ...

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