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ArticleAnnals of medicine and surgery (2012)2021

Case report of an unexpected inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor.

Vishal Farid Raza, Dawood Arshad, Sajeel Ahmad, Khalid Javeed Khan

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Article in Annals of medicine and surgery (2012), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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4 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Vishal Farid RazaDepartment of General Surgery, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, Lahore, Fatima Jinnah Medical University, Queen's Road, Lahore, 54000, Pakistan.
Dawood ArshadDepartment of General Surgery, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, Lahore, Fatima Jinnah Medical University, Queen's Road, Lahore, 54000, Pakistan.
Sajeel AhmadDepartment of General Surgery, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, Lahore, Fatima Jinnah Medical University, Queen's Road, Lahore, 54000, Pakistan.
Khalid Javeed KhanDepartment of General Surgery, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, Lahore, Fatima Jinnah Medical University, Queen's Road, Lahore, 54000, Pakistan.
Fatima Jinnah Medical University · PKSir Ganga Ram Hospital · PK

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

introductionInflammatory myofibroblastic tumor is a benign entity that may present as a locally aggressive malignancy, predominantly in the lung. 500 cases have been reported in the literature, and an estimated prevalence ranges from 0.04% to 0.7%. CASE PRESENTATION: An eighteen-year old male presented to the surgical clinic with abdominal pain. The pain was recurring despite trials of analgesics and remained undiagnosed. Radiological imaging demonstrated a lesion in the spleen. An infectious cause was presumed due to their endemicity in South Asia, however pathology showed an inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor. DISCUSSION: Pre-operative imaging is yet to develop a set criterion that may identify this lesion, though clinicians may be clued in by the benign appearance despite the large size. Usual diagnosis is on pathology after complete surgical excision, which is the mainstay treatment advocated.

conclusionReporting of the tumor in unusual sites such as the spleen is scarce, increase of which may help establish guidelines, understand tumor behavior and guide clinicians that may encounter it in surgical practice.

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Case reportInflammatory myofibroblastic tumorSpleen

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