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Rev Cent Dermatol Pascua 2001; 10 (2)

Isolated glomic tumor. Case report

Rodríguez AM, Calderón RC, Ramos-Garibay A

Language: Spanish
References: 13
Page: 77-79
PDF size: 45.24 Kb.


ABSTRACT

We report a case of a 42 year old man with a painful tumor of the skin on the back, with 14 years of evolution, that was diagnosed as glomus tumor by clinical and histological features. We present this case because the unusual localization of this tumor.


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