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Rare disease
CASE REPORT
Transungual resection of subungual glomus tumour
  1. Dincer Altinel1,
  2. Merdan Serin1,
  3. Cem Leblebici2,
  4. Gaye Toplu1
  1. 1Department of Plastic Surgery, Istanbul Training and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey
  2. 2Department of Pathology, Istanbul Training and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey
  1. Correspondence to Dr Merdan Serin, merdanserin{at}gmail.com

Summary

Glomus tumours are benign soft tissue neoplasms. In this paper, we present a case with subungual glomus tumour. Transungual resection was performed to remove tumour. The patient was doing well 6 months after the surgery with no sign of recurrence or nail deformity.

  • plastic and reconstructive surgery
  • orthopaedic and trauma surgery

https://doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2017-221211

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    Footnotes

    • Contributors DA and GT have performed the surgery and have contributed in the planning of the report. MS has contributed in the writing of the manuscript and CL has provided the pathological examination.

    • Competing interests None declared.

    • Patient consent Obtained.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.