Glomus Tumor: “A-Not-So-Rare” Cause of Chronic Shoulder Pain—A Case Report and Literature Review

Table 1

Table compiling all cases of glomus tumors around the shoulder published in English literature.

Paper (year published)	Age	Gender	Location	Size (cm)	Time until diagnosis (years)	Symptoms
Bailey (1935) [19]	48	Male	Lateral shoulder	0.3	20.0	Pain, tenderness
Riveros & Pack (1951) [28]	40	Female	Scapular region	0.5	NR	Pain
Massey (1992) [29]	41	Female	Supraescapular region	1.0	Several	Pain, tenderness
Heys et al. (1992) [7]	NR	NR	NR	NR	NR	NR
Calonje and Fletcher (1995) [30]	NA	NA	Cutaneous intraneural	NA	NA	NR
Yoshikawa et al. (1996) [20]	35	Female	Rotator cuff	4.0	20.0	Pain
Roberts et al. (1999) [21]	67	Male	NA	3.5	20.0	Pain, tenderness
Ghaly and Ring (1999) [17]	62	Male	Subcutaneous (supraclavicular)	1.0	20.0	Pain, tenderness, cold
Abela et al. (2000) [14]	52	Male	Subcutaneous	1.5	10.0	Pain, tenderness
Solivetti et al. (2002) [18]	58	Male	NR	0.4	1.0	NR
Schiefer (2016)—2 cases [3]	38/NR	Male/NR	Subcutaneous (medial scapula)/NR	0.6/NR	2.0/NR	Pain, tenderness/NR
Boretto et al. (2008) [6]	54	Female	Insertion deltoid	NR	30.0	Pain, tenderness
Gautam et al. (2008) [31]	25	Female	Acromion	NR	5.0	Pain, tenderness
Karakurum et al. (2009) [15]	71	Male	Posterior fibers deltoid	2.5	0.5	Pain, tenderness, cold
Rishi et al. (2012) [11]	51	Male	Subcutaneous posterior scapula (glomangiosarcoma)	1.0	0.165	Pruritus
Proietti et al. (2013) [4]	30	Female	Subcutaneous posterior scapula	4.0	1.0	Pain, paresthesia
Geramizadeh et al. (2015) [13]	25	Female	Adjacent clavicle	4.9	Since adolescence	Pain, tenderness
Singh et al. (2016) [27]	70	Male	Suprascapular notch	NR	6.0	Pain, tenderness
Beytemür et al. (2016) [16]	68	Male	Anterior fibers deltoid	3.0	1.0	Pain, tenderness
Ravikanth et al. (2018) [32]	56	Male	Subcutaneous (supraclavicular)	<1.0	4.0	Pain, tenderness
Present case	61	Male	Posterior fibers, deltoid	1.0	1.0	Pain, tenderness

NR: nonregistered; NA: not available.