Inflammatory Pseudotumor of the Liver

Inflammatory pseudotumor of the liver.

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...

Inflammatory pseudotumor of gall bladder fossa of liver.

Inflammatory pseudotumor has been described in the lung, liver and other sites, but pseudotumors of the gall bladder fossa have not been reported earlier. We report a 39-year-old woman with inflammatory pseudotumor of the liver in the gall bladder fossa that resembled carcinoma gall bladder.

Inflammatory Pseudotumor of the Spleen

Isolated splenic inflammatory pseudotumors (IPT) are extremely rare, typically benign, inflammatory lesions with varied clinical presentations that pose a diagnostic challenge to clinicians due to their similarity in appearance to neoplasms. We present the case of a young woman diagnosed with a splenic IPT following investigation for persistent anemia, raised inflammatory markers, and polyclona...

Inflammatory pseudotumor of the spleen.

Inflammatory pseudotumor of the spleen is a very rare benign lesion of unknown etiology. Splenectomy is recommended to obtain histological diagnosis and to eliminate a malignant tumor.

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...