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Case Reports
. 2017 Dec;14(6):1405-1406.
doi: 10.1111/iwj.12817. Epub 2017 Sep 25.

The exquisitely painful fingertip - subungual glomus tumours

Shetha Naji  1 , Charles Yuen Yung Loh  1 , Makarand Tare  1
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Case Reports

The exquisitely painful fingertip - subungual glomus tumours

Shetha Naji et al. Int Wound J. 2017 Dec.
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Figure 1
Figure 1
(A) Intraoperative photograph with arrow pointing towards a subungual nodular lesion characteristic of a glomus tumour. (B) Photograph of the glomus tumour fully excised from its vascular base. (C) Photograph of the end result after closure and excision of the affected nail plate and soft tissue.
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