[Glomus tumor--a rare stomach tumor].

We report on a 72 year old woman with a large glomus tumor of the stomach is given. The difficulty of preoperative diagnostics is described, and the importance of immediate section of microscopic examination during surgery in order to minimize the extent of resection is shown. Gastric glomus tumors are rare, benign, and normally solitary lesions in the antrum or pyloric region. When the exact intraoperative diagnosis is possible, a local excision is seen as a sufficient treatment.