Diagnosis, management, and complications of glomus tumours of the digits in neurofibromatosis type 1.

  • Douglas R Stewart
  • Jennifer L Sloan
  • Lawrence Yao
  • Andrew J Mannes
  • Moshyedi Armin
  • Chyi-Chia Richard Lee
  • Raf Sciot
  • De Smet Luc
  • Viktor Felix Mautner
  • Eric Legius

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Abstract

Glomus tumours are benign painful tumours of the glomus body, a thermoregulatory shunt in the digits. Glomus tumours of the fingers and toes are associated with the monogenic disorder neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) and are recently recognised as part of the NF1 phenotype.

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Original languageGerman
Article number8
ISSN0022-2593
Publication statusPublished - 2010
pubmed 20530151