ArticleCureus2018
Inflammatory Pseudotumor of the Liver Presented in a Patient with Cholelithiasis.
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8 citing papers in PubMed, 15 citations in OpenAlex.
- Mycobacterial Spindle Cell Pseudotumor Presenting as a Pancreatic Head Mass: A Case Report.Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Inflammatory Pseudotumor of the Liver or Intrahepatic Cholangiocarcinoma, That's the Question: A Review of the Literature.Cancers · 2024Review
- A rare case of fibrohistiocytic hepatic inflammatory pseudotumor with cholecystocholangitis showing positive IgG4 staining.Clinical journal of gastroenterology · 2022Article
- Magnetic resonance imaging of inflammatory pseudotumor of the liver: a 2021 systematic literature update and series presentation.Abdominal radiology (New York) · 2022Article
- Multiple Inflammatory Pseudotumors of the Liver Demonstrating Spontaneous Regression: A Case Report.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Coagulation-related inflammatory pseudotumor of liver.The Kaohsiung journal of medical sciences · 2021Article
- Multiple hepatic inflammatory pseudotumors with elevated alpha-fetoprotein and alpha-fetoprotein lectin 3 fraction with various PET accumulations: a case report.Surgical case reports · 2021Article
- Enlarging Liver Mass: Inflammatory Pseudotumor in a Patient With Polymyalgia Rheumatica.Journal of investigative medicine high impact case reportsArticle
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Abstract
An inflammatory pseudotumor of the liver is a rare tumor-like lesion consisting of an inflammatory infiltrate that often can mimic a malignant liver neoplasm. The cause of an inflammatory pseudotumor of the liver is unknown, but it has been reported to be associated with different comorbid conditions most likely inflammatory or infectious in origin. We present an 83-year-old female who presented with a symptomatic gallstones disease and an incidental finding of inflammatory pseudotumor mimicking intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma in preoperative liver imaging. Differentiating a pseudotumor from hepatic space-occupying neoplasms is crucial since it is one of the most important tumor-mimicking lesions. The imaging findings of this rare tumor can pose diagnostic difficulties because of the amount of fibrosis and cellular infiltration. If malignancy has been excluded, patients can be treated conservatively with steroids and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs. However, complete surgical resection has been the modality of treatment for most of the cases with an indeterminate diagnosis.
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