A Case of Glomus Tumor of the Stomach Resected by Laparoscopic Surgery -A Case Report-

Susumu Kawano, Ryuzo Murai, Tohru Harada^*, Yoji Yamazaki and Teruaki Aoki

Department of Surgery and Pathology^*, The Jikei University School of Medicine

A 62-year-old man was admitted to our hospital with a diagnosis of gastric tumor during a health screening X-ray examination. The submucosal tumor was detected with endoscopy, endoscopic ultrasonography and X-ray examination. The preoperative diagnosis was leiomyoma of the stomach because of the smooth and hypoechoic lesion seen during endoscopic ultrasonography. Laparoscopic partial resection of the stomach was performed. The histological examination revealed the tumor to be a glomus tumor. In Japan, a glomus tumor of the stomach was first reported in 1962 and only 69 cases have been reported in the Japanese literature up to now, of which only one case has been resected by laparoscopic surgery.

Key words
glomus tumor, gastric SMT, laparoscopic surgery

Reprint requests
Susumu Kawano Department of Surgery, The Jikei University School of Medicine 3-25-8 Nishishinbashi, Minato-ku, Tokyo, 105-8461 JAPAN

Accepted
October 26, 1999

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