Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor of the thigh without bone involvement: a case report

Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumors are rare, and those located in the extremities without bone involvement are even rarer. We present the case of a 61-year-old Chinese male patient with an inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor of the right thigh. It was excised and a histopathologic examination reveal...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Lin, Jun, Liu, Hao, Zhuang, Yin, Yang, Peng, Zheng, Yifei, Yang, Yan, Yang, Huilin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4114126/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25022487
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7819-12-208
_version_ 1782328393235169280
author Lin, Jun
Liu, Hao
Zhuang, Yin
Yang, Peng
Zheng, Yifei
Yang, Yan
Yang, Huilin
author_facet Lin, Jun
Liu, Hao
Zhuang, Yin
Yang, Peng
Zheng, Yifei
Yang, Yan
Yang, Huilin
author_sort Lin, Jun
collection PubMed
description Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumors are rare, and those located in the extremities without bone involvement are even rarer. We present the case of a 61-year-old Chinese male patient with an inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor of the right thigh. It was excised and a histopathologic examination revealed an inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor. This case is presented by virtue of its rare location.
format Online
Article
Text
id pubmed-4114126
institution National Center for Biotechnology Information
language English
publishDate 2014
publisher BioMed Central
record_format MEDLINE/PubMed
spelling pubmed-41141262014-07-30 Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor of the thigh without bone involvement: a case report Lin, Jun Liu, Hao Zhuang, Yin Yang, Peng Zheng, Yifei Yang, Yan Yang, Huilin World J Surg Oncol Case Report Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumors are rare, and those located in the extremities without bone involvement are even rarer. We present the case of a 61-year-old Chinese male patient with an inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor of the right thigh. It was excised and a histopathologic examination revealed an inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor. This case is presented by virtue of its rare location. BioMed Central 2014-07-15 /pmc/articles/PMC4114126/ /pubmed/25022487 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7819-12-208 Text en Copyright © 2014 Lin et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
spellingShingle Case Report
Lin, Jun
Liu, Hao
Zhuang, Yin
Yang, Peng
Zheng, Yifei
Yang, Yan
Yang, Huilin
Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor of the thigh without bone involvement: a case report
title Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor of the thigh without bone involvement: a case report
title_full Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor of the thigh without bone involvement: a case report
title_fullStr Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor of the thigh without bone involvement: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor of the thigh without bone involvement: a case report
title_short Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor of the thigh without bone involvement: a case report
title_sort inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor of the thigh without bone involvement: a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4114126/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25022487
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7819-12-208
work_keys_str_mv AT linjun inflammatorymyofibroblastictumorofthethighwithoutboneinvolvementacasereport
AT liuhao inflammatorymyofibroblastictumorofthethighwithoutboneinvolvementacasereport
AT zhuangyin inflammatorymyofibroblastictumorofthethighwithoutboneinvolvementacasereport
AT yangpeng inflammatorymyofibroblastictumorofthethighwithoutboneinvolvementacasereport
AT zhengyifei inflammatorymyofibroblastictumorofthethighwithoutboneinvolvementacasereport
AT yangyan inflammatorymyofibroblastictumorofthethighwithoutboneinvolvementacasereport
AT yanghuilin inflammatorymyofibroblastictumorofthethighwithoutboneinvolvementacasereport

Ejemplares similares