Fever of unknown origin as a presentation of gastric inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor in a two-year-old boy.

Gastric inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor (IMT) is an extremely rare lesion with mimicking malignant features and accompanied with various clinical manifestations. Here we present a 2-yr-old boy who had a gastric IMT with a huge extragastric mass, which closely resembled a neuroblastoma on imaging...

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Autores principales: Cho, Min Young, Min, Youn Ki, Kim, Nam Ryeol, Cho, Seong Jin, Kim, Han Kyeom, Lee, Kwang Chul, Suh, Sung Ock, Whang, Cheung Wung
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Korean Academy of Medical Sciences 2002
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3054930/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12378027
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Sumario:Gastric inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor (IMT) is an extremely rare lesion with mimicking malignant features and accompanied with various clinical manifestations. Here we present a 2-yr-old boy who had a gastric IMT with a huge extragastric mass, which closely resembled a neuroblastoma on imaging studies. He experienced intermittent fever and poor appetite for 6 weeks. Fever remained up to 38 degrees C even on the operation day. He underwent partial gastrectomy and distal pancreatectomy with splenectomy including the tumor. The preoperative fever disappeared and did not recur in the postoperative course.

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