Liver Inflammatory Pseudotumor Mimicking Cholangiocarcinoma

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...

Splenic inflammatory pseudotumor mimicking primary splenic malignancy.

1. Michailov G, Laporte JPH, Lesage S, et al. Autologous bone marrow transplantation is feasible in patients with a prior history of invasive pulmonary aspergillosis. Bone Marrow Transplant 1996; 17:569-72. 2. Martino R, Lopez R, Sureda A, Brunet S, Domingo Albos A. Risk of reactivation of a recent invasive fungal infection in patients with hematological malignancies undergoing further intensiv...

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.