what causes glomus tumor of a finger
The patients were diagnosed with glomus tumor in the finger tip using HR-MRI and were treated with surgical excision. Glomus tumor is a tumor arising from a neuromyoarterial glomus and the most common site of glomus tumor is fingers 1,3. Occasionally, in subungual glomus tumor, nail deformity and change of color beneath the nail on clinical findings and a scalloped defect of the distal phalanx on the radiograph are observed 1,3,5,7.