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Case Report Volume 9 Issue 3

Unusual Case of Granular Cell Tumour of the Little Finger

Fawziyya Khan1 and Paul Hartel2,3 *

1 School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences, Queens University Belfast, United Kingdom
2 Department of Pathology, University Hospital Sligo, Ireland
3 Department of Medicine, West Virginia University, United States

*Corresponding Author: Paul Hartel, Professor, Department of Pathology, University Hospital Sligo, The Mall, Sligo, Ireland.

Received: February 03, 2026; Published: February 19, 2026

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Abstract

We present an unusual case of a 16 year-old female with benign granular cell tumour in fifth digit soft tissue. While granular cell tumours are common in peripheral soft tissues, head and neck and oesophagus, they are particularly unusual in digits. Tumour showed typical nests and ribbons of cells with abundant eosinophilic cytoplasm and these were immunoreactive with S-100 and CD68 and showed cytoplasmic inclusions with Periodic Acid Schiff (PAS) histochemistry. This case allows for consideration of granular cell tumour in the differential diagnosis of soft tissue masses in digits

Keywords: Soft Tissue Tumour; Granular Cell Tumour; Digit Soft Tissue; Hand Tumours; Atypical Soft Tissue

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Citation

Citation: Fawziyya Khan and Paul Hartel. “Unusual Case of Granular Cell Tumour of the Little Finger". Acta Scientific Orthopaedics 9.3 (2026): 01-03.

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Copyright: © 2026 Fawziyya Khan and Paul Hartel. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.




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