Inflammatory pseudotumor of the Kidney

Inflammatory pseudotumor of the Kidney

BACKGROUND Inflammatory pseudotumor of the kidney or inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor (IMT) is composed of spindle cells admixed with variable amount of proliferating myofibroblasts, fibroblasts, extracellular collagen, lymphocytes and plasma cells. This mainly affects the urinary bladder or prostate. Renal involvement is rare. CASE PRESENTATION A 56 year-old man was diagnosed with asymptom...

Inflammatory Pseudotumor of the Liver

Inflammatory pseudotumor of the liver is a focal mass consisting proliferation of plasma cells and other inflammatory cells. This rare disease should be . included in differential diagnosis in patients with hepatic mass in imaging studies, which to avoid surgery. Case Report. A 49 years old woman admitted in Shohada Hospital with epigastric pain the imaging studies was done (U.S.-C. T). Two S...

IgG4 Inflammatory Pseudotumor of the Kidney

Hyper-IgG4 disease is a rare systemic disorder that usually affects middle age males. It is characterized by elevated serum IgG4 levels and infiltration of organs by IgG4 positive plasma cells associated with fibrosis. Patients usually present with mass or masses in the involved organ that mimic neoplasia. While initially described in the pancreas, IgG4-related inflammatory tumors have been now...

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Inflammatory pseudotumor of kidney: a challenging diagnostic entity

A 54-year-old otherwise healthy Caucasian male was referred to us for further management of an enlarging left heterogeneous peri-renal mass. The patient had been initially followed with serial imaging by his primary care physician, who had been monitoring the mass since it was first detected 2 years earlier, when it was 2.9cm in size. Most recent CT scan showed a 4.7 cm mass, located posteriorl...