Table 1.
Summary of published accounts of glomus tumors of the fingers or toes in neurofibromatosis type 1.
| Reference | Reference patient identifier |
Gender | Age (years) |
No. years of painful fingers/toes |
No. of painful fingers/toes |
No. fingers/toes surgically explored |
No. histologically cofirmed glomus tumors |
Recurrence of tumor | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Klaber 1938 | (Single patient) | F | 13 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | No comment on recurrence | First report of "glomoid tumors" of right neck, left heel and calf in "Recklinghausen's disease" |
| Park et al 1994 | Patient 2 | F | 17 | 3 | 6: Right F2, F3, F4, F5; Left F3; Right hallux | 6 | 6 | No comment on recurrence | First report in English of multiple glomus tumors in fingers in NF1 |
| Okaka et al 1999 | (Single patient) | F | 22 | 3 | 5: Right F4; Left: F2, F3, F4, F5 | 5 | 5 | "There have been no recurrences" | Symptoms resolved after surgery |
| Sawada et al 1995 | Patient 1 | M | 45 | 20 | 5: Right F2, F4, F5; Left hallux, F4 | 5 | 5 | No comment on recurrence | Surgery at 33 and 37 on spine and mediastinum did not reduce pain |
| Patient 2 | F | 28 | Not stated | 5: Right F3, F4, F5; Left F2, F5 | 1 of 5 (Left F5) | 1 | No comment on recurrence | Non-resected tumors less painful; "partial reduction" in tenderness of left F5 | |
| Patient 3 | F | 39 | Not stated | 1: Right F3 | None | (No surgery) | (No surgery) | "Partial control of pain was obtained with a combination of oral carbamazepine (600 mg/day) and a stellate block." | |
| Kim 2000 | (Single patient) | F | 34 | Not stated | 1: Right T2 | 1 | 1 | No comment on recurrence | Letter to the editor. |
| De Smet et al 2002 | Patient 1 | F | 53 | > 1 | 2: Right F4; Left F3 | 2 | 2 | No evidence of recurrence | Symptoms resolved after surgery |
| Patient 2 | M | 35 | Not stated | 2: Right F3 and F4 | 2 | 2 | No comment on recurrence | Symptoms resolved after surgery |
N/A: Not applicable