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ArticleLife (Basel, Switzerland)2022

Multiple Inflammatory Pseudotumors of the Liver Demonstrating Spontaneous Regression: A Case Report.

Noriko Ishii-Kitano, Hirayuki Enomoto, Takashi Nishimura, Nobuhiro Aizawa, Yoko Shibata, Akiko Higashiura, Tomoyuki Takashima, Naoto Ikeda, Yukihisa Yuri, Aoi Fujiwara and 10 more

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Article in Life (Basel, Switzerland), 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4citing papers in PubMed
0.9field-weighted citation impact, top 28% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed, 5 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

20 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Noriko Ishii-KitanoDivision of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Disease, Department of Internal Medicine, Hyogo College of Medicine, Mukogawa-cho 1-1, Nishinomiya 663-8501, Hyogo, Japan.
Hirayuki EnomotoDivision of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Disease, Department of Internal Medicine, Hyogo College of Medicine, Mukogawa-cho 1-1, Nishinomiya 663-8501, Hyogo, Japan.
Takashi NishimuraDivision of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Disease, Department of Internal Medicine, Hyogo College of Medicine, Mukogawa-cho 1-1, Nishinomiya 663-8501, Hyogo, Japan.ORCID 0000-0002-5517-8303
Nobuhiro AizawaDivision of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Disease, Department of Internal Medicine, Hyogo College of Medicine, Mukogawa-cho 1-1, Nishinomiya 663-8501, Hyogo, Japan.
Yoko ShibataUltrasound Imaging Center, Hyogo College of Medicine, Nishinomiya 663-8501, Hyogo, Japan.
Akiko HigashiuraUltrasound Imaging Center, Hyogo College of Medicine, Nishinomiya 663-8501, Hyogo, Japan.
Tomoyuki TakashimaDivision of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Disease, Department of Internal Medicine, Hyogo College of Medicine, Mukogawa-cho 1-1, Nishinomiya 663-8501, Hyogo, Japan.
Naoto IkedaDivision of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Disease, Department of Internal Medicine, Hyogo College of Medicine, Mukogawa-cho 1-1, Nishinomiya 663-8501, Hyogo, Japan.
Yukihisa YuriDivision of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Disease, Department of Internal Medicine, Hyogo College of Medicine, Mukogawa-cho 1-1, Nishinomiya 663-8501, Hyogo, Japan.
Aoi FujiwaraDivision of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Disease, Department of Internal Medicine, Hyogo College of Medicine, Mukogawa-cho 1-1, Nishinomiya 663-8501, Hyogo, Japan.
Kohei YoshiharaDivision of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Disease, Department of Internal Medicine, Hyogo College of Medicine, Mukogawa-cho 1-1, Nishinomiya 663-8501, Hyogo, Japan.
Ryota YoshiokaDivision of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Disease, Department of Internal Medicine, Hyogo College of Medicine, Mukogawa-cho 1-1, Nishinomiya 663-8501, Hyogo, Japan.
Shoki KawataDivision of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Disease, Department of Internal Medicine, Hyogo College of Medicine, Mukogawa-cho 1-1, Nishinomiya 663-8501, Hyogo, Japan.
Shogo OtaDivision of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Disease, Department of Internal Medicine, Hyogo College of Medicine, Mukogawa-cho 1-1, Nishinomiya 663-8501, Hyogo, Japan.ORCID 0000-0001-5171-1847
Ryota NakanoDivision of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Disease, Department of Internal Medicine, Hyogo College of Medicine, Mukogawa-cho 1-1, Nishinomiya 663-8501, Hyogo, Japan.ORCID 0000-0002-1844-2865
Hideyuki ShiomiDivision of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Disease, Department of Internal Medicine, Hyogo College of Medicine, Mukogawa-cho 1-1, Nishinomiya 663-8501, Hyogo, Japan.
Seiichi HirotaDepartment of Surgical Pathology, Hyogo College of Medicine, Nishinomiya 663-8501, Hyogo, Japan.
Tsutomu KumabeKumabe Clinic, Kikuchi 861-1331, Kumamoto, Japan.
Osamu NakashimaDepartment of Clinical Laboratory Medicine, Kurume University Hospital, Kurume 830-0011, Fukuoka, Japan.
Hiroko IijimaDivision of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Disease, Department of Internal Medicine, Hyogo College of Medicine, Mukogawa-cho 1-1, Nishinomiya 663-8501, Hyogo, Japan.
Hyogo Medical University · JPKumamoto Orthopedic Surgery Hospital · JPKurume University Hospital · JP

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Inflammatory pseudotumor (IPT) of the liver is a rare benign disease. IPTs generally develop as solitary nodules, and cases with multiple lesions are uncommon. We herein report a case of multiple IPTs of the liver that spontaneously regressed. A 70-year-old woman with a 10-year history of primary biliary cholangitis and rheumatoid arthritis visited our hospital to receive a periodic medical examination. Abdominal ultrasonography revealed multiple hypoechoic lesions, with a maximum size of 33 mm, in the liver. Contrast-enhanced computed tomography revealed low-attenuation areas in the liver with mild peripheral enhancement at the arterial and portal phases. We first suspected metastatic liver tumors, but fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography, magnetic resonance imaging and contrast-enhanced ultrasonography suggested the tumors to be inconsistent with malignant nodules. A percutaneous biopsy showed shedding of liver cells and abundant fibrosis with infiltration of inflammatory cells. Given these findings, we diagnosed the multiple tumors as IPTs. After careful observation for two months, the tumors almost vanished spontaneously. Physicians should avoid a hasty diagnosis of multiple tumors based solely on a few clinical findings, and a careful assessment with various imaging modalities should be conducted.

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contrast-enhanced computed tomographycontrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imagingcontrast-enhanced ultrasonographyfluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomographyinflammatory pseudotumorspontaneous regression

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