[Differential diagnosis of glomus and glomal stomach tumors]

Two cases of glomangiomas of the stomach are described in detail. Moreover 8 cases of mixed glomus tumors of the stomach were clinically observed, one of them being previously described. The analysis of clinico-radiological and morphological features of these diseases, based both on the personal authors' and literature material enabled the conclusion to be drawn on the presence of a number of signs, which could contribute to differentiating between glomangiomas (Barre-Masson tumors) and epitheliod leiomyomas of the stomach. These differences may be of some practical value in selecting the therapeutic tactics and formulating the prognosis.