Inflammatory pseudotumors in the liver associated with influenza: A case report

BACKGROUND: Inflammatory pseudotumor (IPT) is a rare and benign lesion that mimics malignancy and can develop in any part of the body. The pathophysiology and etiology of these quasineoplastic lesions remain unclear. CASE SUMMARY: We report a case of a 65-year-old male who presented with fevers, nig...

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Autores principales: Patel, Ankoor, Chen, Alexander, Lalos, Alexander T
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Baishideng Publishing Group Inc 2023
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10642433/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37970616
http://dx.doi.org/10.4254/wjh.v15.i10.1164
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description BACKGROUND: Inflammatory pseudotumor (IPT) is a rare and benign lesion that mimics malignancy and can develop in any part of the body. The pathophysiology and etiology of these quasineoplastic lesions remain unclear. CASE SUMMARY: We report a case of a 65-year-old male who presented with fevers, night sweats, and unintentional weight loss following an influenza infection and was found to have multiple hepatic IPT’s following an extensive work up. CONCLUSION: Our case highlights the importance of considering hepatic IPT’s in the differential in a patient who presents with symptoms and imaging findings mimicking malignancy shortly following a viral infection.
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spelling pubmed-106424332023-11-15 Inflammatory pseudotumors in the liver associated with influenza: A case report Patel, Ankoor Chen, Alexander Lalos, Alexander T World J Hepatol Case Report BACKGROUND: Inflammatory pseudotumor (IPT) is a rare and benign lesion that mimics malignancy and can develop in any part of the body. The pathophysiology and etiology of these quasineoplastic lesions remain unclear. CASE SUMMARY: We report a case of a 65-year-old male who presented with fevers, night sweats, and unintentional weight loss following an influenza infection and was found to have multiple hepatic IPT’s following an extensive work up. CONCLUSION: Our case highlights the importance of considering hepatic IPT’s in the differential in a patient who presents with symptoms and imaging findings mimicking malignancy shortly following a viral infection. Baishideng Publishing Group Inc 2023-10-27 2023-10-27 /pmc/articles/PMC10642433/ /pubmed/37970616 http://dx.doi.org/10.4254/wjh.v15.i10.1164 Text en ©The Author(s) 2023. Published by Baishideng Publishing Group Inc. All rights reserved. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This article is an open-access article that was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial.
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title_full Inflammatory pseudotumors in the liver associated with influenza: A case report
title_fullStr Inflammatory pseudotumors in the liver associated with influenza: A case report
title_full_unstemmed Inflammatory pseudotumors in the liver associated with influenza: A case report
title_short Inflammatory pseudotumors in the liver associated with influenza: A case report
title_sort inflammatory pseudotumors in the liver associated with influenza: a case report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10642433/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.4254/wjh.v15.i10.1164
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