How to avoid a stress ulcer: an asymptomatic gastric glomus tumour causing pain in the pathologist’s stomach

Key Points

• To present a case of an asymptomatic gastric glomus tumour that mimics more common gastric conditions.
• Case report analysis focusing on differential diagnoses of stomach masses.
• Examination of histopathological findings related to gastric tumours.
• Identified the gastric glomus tumour as an uncommon cause of abdominal pain.
• Discussed how stress ulcers can be misdiagnosed amidst common tumours like adenocarcinoma and neuroendocrine tumours.