A Case Report of Primary Glomus Tumour of Stomach in a 59 Year Old Man

IntroductionPrimary gastric Glomus tumour is rare and much less frequent than gastrointestinal stromal tumors(GIST).a[S1]t least 150 of them have been reported in articles, but no one had been published in Iran. Case reportPatient was a 59 years old man with the chief complains of sense of epigastric fullness after meal. Endosonography showed a hypoechoic mass in muscularis mucosa with 29×14 mm dimentions. p[S2]atient underwent wedge resection of gastric tumour. In microscopy, sheets and nodules of round to polyhedral uniform cells with bland round to oval nuclei in the background of branched hemangiopericytoma-like vascular stroma with hyalinised wall were seen. Smooth Muscle Actin, desmin, chromogranin and CD117 were determined immunohistochemicaly, the first marker was positive and the reminders were negative. ConclusionPrimary gastric Glomus tumour is essentially a benign neoplasm[S3], in order to prevent unnecessary radical surgery, its differentiation from others malignant lesions is mandatory.