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Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor of epididymis: a case report and review of literature
BACKGROUND: Epididymal inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor, also known by various other synonyms is a rare benign disease. Only eight cases have been reported to date. The most common presentation is a scrotal mass of variable duration. For a scrotal mass it is difficult to distinguish a benign or ma...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2614428/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19014442 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7819-6-119 |
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author | Dangle, Pankaj P Wang, Wenle Paul Pohar, Kamal S |
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description | BACKGROUND: Epididymal inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor, also known by various other synonyms is a rare benign disease. Only eight cases have been reported to date. The most common presentation is a scrotal mass of variable duration. For a scrotal mass it is difficult to distinguish a benign or malignant etiology, in addition to the origin whether from testis or epididymis. As a result the definitive diagnosis can only be established by surgical exploration. CASE PRESENTATION: We report the ninth case of epididymal IMT who based on clinical and radiological findings underwent radical orchidectomy, with the histology suggestive of inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor. At 4 years follow up the patient is free of disease recurrence. CONCLUSION: IMT though rare should be considered in the differential diagnosis of epididymal mass. Clinically it is often difficult to distinguish the origin of mass and even though the disease has benign nature and course it is crucial to counsel patients for orchidectomy as definitive diagnosis is established on surgical exploration. |
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spelling | pubmed-26144282009-01-07 Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor of epididymis: a case report and review of literature Dangle, Pankaj P Wang, Wenle Paul Pohar, Kamal S World J Surg Oncol Case Report BACKGROUND: Epididymal inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor, also known by various other synonyms is a rare benign disease. Only eight cases have been reported to date. The most common presentation is a scrotal mass of variable duration. For a scrotal mass it is difficult to distinguish a benign or malignant etiology, in addition to the origin whether from testis or epididymis. As a result the definitive diagnosis can only be established by surgical exploration. CASE PRESENTATION: We report the ninth case of epididymal IMT who based on clinical and radiological findings underwent radical orchidectomy, with the histology suggestive of inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor. At 4 years follow up the patient is free of disease recurrence. CONCLUSION: IMT though rare should be considered in the differential diagnosis of epididymal mass. Clinically it is often difficult to distinguish the origin of mass and even though the disease has benign nature and course it is crucial to counsel patients for orchidectomy as definitive diagnosis is established on surgical exploration. BioMed Central 2008-11-11 /pmc/articles/PMC2614428/ /pubmed/19014442 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7819-6-119 Text en Copyright © 2008 Dangle et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Case Report Dangle, Pankaj P Wang, Wenle Paul Pohar, Kamal S Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor of epididymis: a case report and review of literature |
title | Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor of epididymis: a case report and review of literature |
title_full | Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor of epididymis: a case report and review of literature |
title_fullStr | Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor of epididymis: a case report and review of literature |
title_full_unstemmed | Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor of epididymis: a case report and review of literature |
title_short | Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor of epididymis: a case report and review of literature |
title_sort | inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor of epididymis: a case report and review of literature |
topic | Case Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2614428/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19014442 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7819-6-119 |
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