• Jeong-A Yeom, Yeon-Joo Jeong, Hyo-Yeong Ahn, Jung-Seop Eom, Chang-Hun Lee, and Min-Hee Hwang.
• Department of Radiology, Pusan National University Yangsan Hospital, Yangsan-si 50612, Korea.
• Medicina (Kaunas). 2022 Jun 13; 58 (6).

Background And ObjectivesGlomus tumors are rare benign tumors. The majority of them affect the skin the most and are rarer in the trachea, where the glomus bodies may not be present. Only scarce reports of tracheal glomus tumors have been reported solely with case reports of relevant articles.Materials And MethodsA 53-year-old man, with a free previous medial history, presented to our hospital with tracheal mass which was incidentally found. He did not complain of any specific symptoms associated with the tracheal tumor. The contrast-enhanced chest computed tomography (CT) revealed an avid enhancing nodular lesion, which is similar to blood vessels, in the trachea, 3 cm above the carina level without definite airway obstruction.ResultsSuccessful tracheal resection and end-to-end anastomosis were performed on the patients; therefore, the final post-operative pathologic findings revealed a benign tracheal glomus tumor. The follow-up CT scan four months after operation showed complete removal of the tumor.ConclusionTracheal glomus tumors, even rare entities, could be considered as a differential diagnosis if a highly enhancing mass appears on CT images.

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