Inflammatory pseudotumor of the liver: an entity mimicking an hepatic neoplasm

Intracranial inflammatory pseudotumor mimicking malignant neoplasm.

Disclosure. The authors declare no conflicting interests, support or funding from any drug company. Figure 1-Contrast-enhanced MRI showed a lesion (arrow) hypointense to gray matter on T1-weighted images and hyperintense on T2-weighted images with homogenous and avid contrast enhancement partially encasing the cerebral dura mater in the polus temporalis. I nflammatory pseudotumor is a non-neopl...

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...

Hepatic inflammatory pseudotumor mimicking hepatocellular carcinoma.

Inflammatory pseudotumor of the liver is a rare tumor. It has variable clinical presentations and image findings. It can mimic benign or malignant hepatic tumors, and may be difficult to diagnose. We present a case in which a hepatic inflammatory pseudotumor was misdiagnosed as hepatocellular carcinoma because the tumor presented a typical enhancing profile and morphology of hepatocellular carc...

Inflammatory pseudotumor of the liver: an unlikely cause of multiple hepatic lesions.

Ghost tumor: an inflammatory pseudotumor of the liver.

Bruno Rosa, MD1 Pedro Moutinho-Ribeiro, MD2 José M. Pereira, MD3 Daniel Fonseca, MD4 Joanne Lopes, MD5 Isabel Amendoeira, MD5 José Cotter, MD1 1Department of Gastroenterology, Alto Ave Hospital Center, Guimarães, Portugal; 2Department of Gastroenterology, Arrábida Hospital, Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal; 3Department of Radiology, São João University Hospital, Porto, Portugal; 4Department of Radio...