Table 1.

Review of available English case reports of esophageal glomus tumors

Case No	Author	Year of publication	Ref. No	Age	Sex	Location	Size (cm)	Nuclear atypia	Mitotic activity	Cell shape	Vascular involvement	Metastasis	Treatment	Surgical procedure
1	Papla B	2001	[8]	79	F	Upper	5	None	None	NA	NA	None	Surgery	Exploratory thoracotomy
2	Altorjay A	2003	[9]	41	F	Upper	5	None	None	Round	NA	None	Surgery	Enucleation via cervical approach
3	Tomas D	2006	[10]	28	F	Lower	3	None	2/50HPF	Round	None	None	Surgery	Partial esophagectomy with gastroesophageal anastomosis
4	Zhang Y	2013	[11]	47	M	Middle	5.8	Present	10/50HPF	Round	Present	Lymph node	Surgery	Ivor–Lewis esophagectomy
5	Bali GS	2013	[12]	49	F	Lower	7.6	NA	9/50HPF	Spindle /Round	None	None	Surgery	Minimally invasive esophagectomy with partial gastrectomy
6	Nishida K	2013	[2]	69	M	Middle	2.1	Present	2/50HPF	Spindle /Round	NA	None	Surgery	Enucleation through right thoracotomy
7	Segura S	2015	[13]	66	F	Cervical	3	None	None	Round	NA	None	None
8	Ugras N	2015	[14]	47	F	Lower	8	Present	6/50HPF	Spindle /Round	NA	None	Surgery	Ivor–Lewis esophagectomy through right thoracotomy
9	Marcella C	2019	[3]	30	M	Middle	2	None	12% Ki67 index	Round	NA	None	Endoscopic resection
10	Seban RD	2020	[15]	45	M	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA	Liver, lung, mediastinum, bone, skin	Surgery/CT/RT	NA
11	Xiao A	2022	[16]	57	F	Middle	5	Present	15/50HPF	Spindle /Round	NA	Lung, lymph node	RT
12	Matsumoto S	2024	Our case	45	M	Lower	1.5	Present	None	Spindle /Round	None	None	Surgery	Thoracoscopic enucleation

NA: not available; CT: chemotherapy; RT: radiation therapy; HPF: high power fields