A Primary Pulmonary Glomus Tumor: A Case Report and Review of the Literature

Table 1

Clinopathological features of glomus tumor in the respiratory tract.

Author (year)	Age/sex	Symptoms	Size (cm)	Location	Biopsy diagnosis	Final diagnosis	Subclassification	Prognosis
Tang et al. (1978) [4]	67/F	Epigastralgia	6.5	Lung	N/A	Typical GT	Glomangioma	9 m FOD
Alt et al. (1983) [5]	34/M	ASX	2	Lung	HPC or GT	Typical GT	Solid GT	N/A
Koss et al. (1998) [6]	50/M	ASX	1.1	Lung	N/A	Typical GT	Solid GT	N/A
	41/M	ASX	1.5	Lung	N/A	Typical GT	Solid GT	47 m FOD
Watanabe et al. (1998) [7]	43/M	Hoarseness	2	Bronchus	Adenoma	Typical GT	Solid GT	20 m FOD
Oizumi et al. (2001) [8]	48/M	Hemosputum	0.7	Bronchus	GT	Typical GT	Solid GT	3 m FOD
Gaertner et al. (2000) [9]	20/M	Pneumo-thorax	1.4	Bronchus	Carcinoid	Typical GT	N/A	9 m FOD
	65/M	ASX	3	Lung	N/A	Typical GT	N/A	5 y FOD
	40/M	ASX	1.1	Lung	HPC suspect	Typical GT	N/A	6 m FOD
	69/M	Hemoptysis	9.5	Lung	N/A	GAS	GAS	68 w DOD
Folpe et al. (2001) [10]	38/M	ASX	3.8	Lung	N/A	GAS	GAS	N/A
	9/F	ASX	4.5	Lung	N/A	GAS	GAS	5 y AWD
Yilmaz et al. (2002) [11]	29/M	Cough	1.5	Lung	Carcinoid	Typical GT	Solid GT	17 m FOD
Hishida et al. (2003) [12]	53/M	Cough	2.5	Lung	Atypical cells	GAS	GAS	23 m FOD
Zhang and England (2003) [13]	29/M	CD	2.5	Lung	Adenoma	Typical GT	Solid GT	N/A
Ueno et al. (2004) [14]	50/M	ASX	4	Lung	N/A	Typical GT	Solid GT	N/A
de Weerdt et al. (2004) [15]	37/M	Cough	N/A	Bronchus	N/A	Typical GT	Solid GT	3 m FOD
Yu et al. (2004) [16]	47/M	Chest pain	N/A	Trachea	GT	GAS	GAS	N/A
Vailati et al. (2004) [17]	40/M	ASX	5	Bronchus	N/A	Typical GT	Solid GT	1 m FOD
Takahashi et al. (2006) [18]	67/M	Cough	3.1	Bronchus	Carcinoid	Typical GT	Solid GT	8 m FOD
Sousa and Carvalho (2006) [19]	62/M	Dyspnea	1.9	Lung	N/A	Typical GT	N/A	N/A
Katabami et al. (2006) [20]	56/M	Hemoptysis	5.5	Bronchus	Carcinoid	Typical GT	Glomangiomyoma	12 m FOD
Rössle et al. (2006) [21]	64/M	ASX	3.5	Lung	N/A	Typical GT	Glomangioma	N/A
Kapur et al. (2007) [22]	34/M	Cough	2.3	Bronchus	Carcinoid	Typical GT	Solid GT	N/A
Dalfior et al. (2008) [23]	55/M	ASX	1.1	Lung	N/A	Typical GT	Solid GT	N/A
Filice et al. (2008) [24]	69/M	Hemoptysis	2	Bronchus	Angiomatous lesion	Typical GT	Solid GT	N/A
Akata et al. (2008) [25]	39/M	Cough	2.5	Bronchus	GT	Typical GT	Solid GT	6 y FOD
De Cocker et al. (2008) [26]	21/F	ASX	2.5	Lung	N/A	Typical GT	Solid GT	N/A
Nakajima et al. (2010) [27]	30s/M	Hemosputum	1.5	Bronchus	Carcinoid	Typical GT	Solid GT	10 m FOD
Kleontas et al. (2010) [28]	74/M	Cough	3.4	Lung	GT	GAS	GAS	12 m FOD
Zhang et al. (2010) [29]	48/M	Cough	3.5	Lung	Myogenic tumor	GAS	GAS	4 d DOOD
Santambrogio et al. (2011) [30]	39/M	ASX	N/A	Lung	Neuroendocrine tumor	Typical GT	Glomangioma	51 m FOD
Present case	43/M	ASX	2	Lung	Sclerosing hemangioma	Typical GT	Solid GT	6 m FOD

ASX: asymptomatic, CD: chest discomfort, N/A: not available, HPC: hemangiopericytoma, GT: glomus tumor, GAS: glomangiosarcoma, FOD: free of disease, DOD: dead of disease, AWD: alive with disease, DOOD: dead on other disease.