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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Soujanya Thummathati, MBBS [2]
Overview
Epidemiology and Demographics
Incidence
- The exact incidence of glomus tumors is unknown.
- The probable misdiagnosis of many of these lesions as hemangiomas or venous malformations also makes an accurate assessment of incidence difficult.[1]
Age
- Solitary glomus tumors commonly affect young to middle aged individuals.[1][2]
- Multiple glomus tumors commonly affect children.[1]
- Multiple glomus tumors develop 11–15 years earlier than single lesions.
- One third of the cases of multiple glomus tumors affect individuals younger than twenty years of age.
Gender
- Females are more commonly affected with solitary glomus tumors (particularly subungual lesions) than males.
- Multiple lesions are slightly more common in males.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Glomus tumor. Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glomus_tumor Accessed on January 11, 2016.
- ↑ Glomangioma. Radiopedia. http://radiopaedia.org/articles/glomangioma. Accessed onJanuary 11, 2016.