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ArticleJournal of medical case reports2014

Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumour arising in the adrenal gland: a case report.

My-Anh Tran-Dang, Neal Banga, Bernard Khoo, Alan W H Bates

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Article in Journal of medical case reports, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2 citing papers in PubMed, 4 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor of the adrenal gland: A case report.International journal of surgery case reports · 2025
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5 · Who and what money

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4 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

My-Anh Tran-Dang
Neal Banga
Bernard Khoo
Alan W H BatesDepartment of Cellular Pathology, Royal Free Hospital, London NW3 2QG, UK. alan.bates@nhs.net.
The Royal Free Hospital · GBTherapeutics Clinical Research · USUniversity College London · GB

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

introductionInflammatory myofibroblastic tumour arising in the adrenal gland is exceptional. As far as we are aware, there have been only three previous reports in the literature. We report a fourth case. CASE PRESENTATION: A 29-year-old Caucasian man presented with upper quadrant pain due to a 15cm heterogenous adrenal mass that displaced his liver. He underwent an open right adrenalectomy. Histopathological examination showed the mass to be an inflammatory myofibroblastic tumour, a histologically distinctive lesion composed of myofibroblasts, plasma cells, lymphocytes and histiocytes. Ten months later he is well with no sign of recurrence.

conclusionsThe lesion was indistinguishable on imaging from an adrenal cortical tumour. Surgical treatment is the same but inflammatory myofibroblastic tumour carries a favourable prognosis.

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AdrenalectomyAdrenal Gland NeoplasmsAdultDisease-Free SurvivalHumansImmunohistochemistryInflammationMaleNeoplasms, Muscle TissueTreatment Outcome

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PMID25481247
PMCPMC4295263
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