The debate persists about the inflammatory or tumoral, benign malignant nature of Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumors (TMI). Radioclinically, they can mimic a neoplasm, although are classified as intermediate by World Health Organization (WHO). diagnosis is almost always made pathological examination. treatment poorly codified but management usually surgical. removal these challenge when mass d...

We retrospectively describe clinicopathological characteristics of five patients with surgically resected pulmonary inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor (IMT), and discuss in the light of present-day concepts regarding this disease entity. During the past 15 years, five patients with an age ranging from 21 to 74 years underwent surgery for IMT of the lung, and the resected lesions were studied hi...

conclusions the patient underwent surgery several days later with complete resection of the tumor and coronary stent retrieval but his left ventricular ejection fraction remained poor after several months and he was referred for cardiac transplantation. introduction cardiac inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor is a rare tumor that can cause potentially fatal outcomes. case presentation we describ...

INTRODUCTION Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor of the temporal bone is an unusual but distinct disease entity. The most common presenting symptoms are otalgia, otorrhea, hearing loss, facial palsy, and vertigo. We describe here what we believe to be the first reported case of a patient presenting with persistent pulsatile tinnitus. The clinical features, radiological and histopathologic findin...

An intracranial cyst tumor with a mural nodule can be representative of some types of brain tumors, but is a rare presentation of intracranial inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor (IMT). Herein, we report the case of an intracranial IMT in a 48-year-old woman presenting with the extremely unusual radiologic findings of a cyst with a mural nodule.

Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumors rarely occur in the urinary bladder. These masses follow an indolent course, but due to their histologic similarities to more malignant types of bladder masses, they must be differentiated with immunohistochemical staining. Once diagnosed, the mainstay of treatment for these masses is surgical resection. Due to advancements in robotic surgery, new surgical te...

Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor (IMT), which usually affects young adults and children, is a solid neoplastic mesenchymal proliferation composed of myofibroblastic spindle cells admixed with inflammatory infiltrates. Numerous extrapulmonary sites of these tumors have been found, but intestinal IMT is rare, especially in elderly patient. Its diagnosis is recognized as difficult because the pa...

Background: Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor is a rare occurrence in general practice. Its biologic nature, natural history and response to different treatment modalities are obscure. Materials and Methods: We retrospectively reviewed clinical and pathological features of 5 patients with inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor of the lung observed between 1999 and 2006. Results: Under-study patien...

We report herein the case of a 57-year-old lady who had two concomittant lesions, an inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor in the trachea, and severe granulomatous lesions in the adjacent hilar lymph nodes. While these two lesions shared histological and some immunohistochemical features lesions. They differed in terms of ALK-1 expression, which was positive in the tracheal tumor and negative in t...