Treatment of subungual glomus tumor.

نویسندگان

Hiroyuki Fujioka

Takeshi Kokubu

Toshihiro Akisue

Issei Nagura

Narikazu Toyokawa

Atsuyuki Inui

Ryosuke Sakata

Masahiro Kurosaka

چکیده

We report four cases of chronic obscure pain in the finger tips. High-resolution magnetic resonance imaging (HR-MRI) findings helped diagnose the existence of a mass at the subungual area and all patients were treated with excision and biopsy. The pathological diagnosis was glomus tumor. HR-MRI is useful in the diagnosis of patients with subungual glomus tumor.

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