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Wheeless' Textbook of Orthopaedics

Multiple digital glomus tumors


Maxwell GP. Curtis RM. Wilgis EF. Journal of Hand Surgery - St Louis. 4(4):363-7, 1979 Jul. In 28 patients with glomus tumors of the digits, 21 were relieved of symptoms by excision of a solitary tumor. Seven other patients had multiple tumors, four of which were the cause of recurrent symptoms. Three patients had multiple tumors--five in one patient, four in another, and two in a third, which had been found at the time of the first operation. A 25% incidence of multiple tumors and a 15% incidence of recurrent symptoms indicates that a careful search should be made for additional tumors.



Original Text by Clifford R. Wheeless, III, MD.