Intra-abdominal infantile inflammatory myofibroblastic tumors: A report of three cases

Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor occurring at intra-abdominal sites in children can be confused with malignancy because of its large size and location. It is a tumor classified as ‘intermediate’ between benign and malignant, but usually benign, with a strong tendency for recurrence. Treatment is s...

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Autores principales: Banerjee, Mala, Mukhopadhyay, Debasis, Gupta, Shatavisha Das, Chatterjee, Uttara, Banerjee, Sugato
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2014
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4204253/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25336810
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-9261.142020
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author Banerjee, Mala
Mukhopadhyay, Debasis
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Chatterjee, Uttara
Banerjee, Sugato
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description Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor occurring at intra-abdominal sites in children can be confused with malignancy because of its large size and location. It is a tumor classified as ‘intermediate’ between benign and malignant, but usually benign, with a strong tendency for recurrence. Treatment is surgical excision. Here, we present a brief outline of three such cases presenting as abdominal mass in infants.
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spelling pubmed-42042532014-10-21 Intra-abdominal infantile inflammatory myofibroblastic tumors: A report of three cases Banerjee, Mala Mukhopadhyay, Debasis Gupta, Shatavisha Das Chatterjee, Uttara Banerjee, Sugato J Indian Assoc Pediatr Surg Case Report Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor occurring at intra-abdominal sites in children can be confused with malignancy because of its large size and location. It is a tumor classified as ‘intermediate’ between benign and malignant, but usually benign, with a strong tendency for recurrence. Treatment is surgical excision. Here, we present a brief outline of three such cases presenting as abdominal mass in infants. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2014 /pmc/articles/PMC4204253/ /pubmed/25336810 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-9261.142020 Text en Copyright: © Journal of Indian Association of Pediatric Surgeons http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_full Intra-abdominal infantile inflammatory myofibroblastic tumors: A report of three cases
title_fullStr Intra-abdominal infantile inflammatory myofibroblastic tumors: A report of three cases
title_full_unstemmed Intra-abdominal infantile inflammatory myofibroblastic tumors: A report of three cases
title_short Intra-abdominal infantile inflammatory myofibroblastic tumors: A report of three cases
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4204253/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25336810
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-9261.142020
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