ABSTRACT
Glomagiomatosis is an arteriovenous malformation of the skin that occurs as asymptomatic multiple pink to blue nodules or plaques. Multiple occurrences of lesions are extremely rare and represent 10% of all cases. Familial cases are caused by mutations in the glomulin gene. In contrast to glomus tumors, which generally prefer subungual regions in young adults, glomagiomatosis often manifests itself with multiple lesions in various parts of the body in children or adolescence. In this article, we present a 24-year-old male case diagnosed with familial diffuse cutaneous glomagiomatosis.
Keywords: Glomus, arteriovenous malformation, vascular lesion
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