Primary Chest Wall Glomus Tumor Resected by Video-Assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery: A Case Report with 10-Year Follow-up
Noritake Kikunishi, Tetsukan Woo, Daisuke Noma, Atsuko Osawa, Takashi Nakayama, Aya Saito · 2026
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Description
Noritake Kikunishi and colleagues report a 65-year-old man whose worsening back pain came from a small glomus tumor growing in his chest wall. Scans showed a well-defined oval mass, 20 by 13 millimeters, near the ninth rib on the right side. A PET scan gave a low uptake value of 2.2 at its peak, a reading that argued against a fast-growing cancer but could not settle the diagnosis.
Surgeons removed the mass through four-port video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery with clear margins. Tissue tests confirmed a benign glomus tumor, positive for smooth muscle actin, with a growth index below 1 percent. His severe pain vanished right after surgery, and he stayed free of symptoms and recurrence at ten years. With only 13 chest wall cases in English reports before this one, the case widens the list of causes of painful chest wall lumps.
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| CREATOR | Noritake Kikunishi, Tetsukan Woo, Daisuke Noma, Atsuko Osawa, Takashi Nakayama, Aya Saito |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 20 KB |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |