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ReviewIn vivo (Athens, Greece)

A Rare Case of Inflammatory Myofibroblastic Tumor of the Prostate and Review of the Literature.

Min Seok Kim, Sung-Chul Lim

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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Min Seok KimDepartment of Urology, College of Medicine, Chosun University, Gwangju, Republic of Korea.
Sung-Chul LimDepartment of Pathology, College of Medicine, Chosun University, Gwangju, Republic of Korea sclim@chosun.ac.kr.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundInflammatory myofibroblastic tumor (IMT) is a rare type of soft-tissue neoplasm. IMT of the urinary tract is more common in the bladder and kidneys. Prostatic IMT is extremely rare. CASE REPORT: We present a rare case of IMT of the prostate and a literature review on this condition. The patient was a 72-year-old man who presented with urinary symptoms. Transrectal needle biopsy of the prostate revealed prostatic adenocarcinoma with nodular hyperplasia. Radical prostatectomy revealed IMT without residual adenocarcinoma. On immunohistochemical examination, the tumor cells showed positive immunoreactivity for α-smooth muscle actin, CD10, CD34, and desmin but negative immunoreactivities for anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK), receptor tyrosine kinase (c-KIT), and S-100 protein. The patient underwent regular follow-up examination. No recurrence was observed 4 months after the diagnosis.

conclusionThis was a case of IMT arising in the prostate. Pathologists should be aware of such an entity whenever they see spindle-cell lesions in the transrectal needle biopsy of the prostate.

Indexed as

Granuloma, Plasma CellProstatic NeoplasmsAgedHumansMaleNeoplasm Recurrence, LocalReceptor Protein-Tyrosine KinasesReceptor Protein-Tyrosine KinasesALKimmunohistochemistryInflammatory myofibroblastic tumorprostate

Identifiers

PMID32606180
PMCPMC7439877

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