A large thumb mass

Br J Hosp Med (Lond). 2012 Feb;73(2):112.

Abstract

A 31-year-old man presented with a 5-year history of a spontaneously occurring soft tissue mass on the palmar aspect of his left non dominant thumb. Over 5 months he was having progressive difficulty flexing at the interphalangeal joint. Magnetic resonance imaging demonstrated an heterogeneously enhancing soft tissue mass likely to be either a peripheral fibromatosis or giant cell tumour of the flexor tendon (Figure 1). Intraoperatively a large neuroma in continuity with the ulnar digital nerve was found and debulked (Figure 2). The diagnosis was confirmed histologically.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Neuroma / diagnosis*
  • Neuroma / surgery
  • Thumb / innervation*
  • Thumb / pathology
  • Ulnar Neuropathies / diagnosis*
  • Ulnar Neuropathies / surgery