[Recurrent inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor with renal, retroperitoneal and lymph node involvement]

Rev Med Interne. 2009 Apr;30(4):372-6. doi: 10.1016/j.revmed.2008.05.014. Epub 2008 Sep 24.
[Article in French]

Abstract

Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumors are uncommon and benign tumors with unknown aetiology. First reported in the lungs, the inflammatory myofibroblastic tumors have been observed in other locations, especially in the abdomen and the pelvis. We report a 14-year-old adolescent female, who presented sequentially an inflammatory pseudotumor of lymph node, the left kidney and the retroperitoneum. Extrapulmonary inflammatory myofibroblastic tumors are mesenchymal solid tumors. They are frequently circumscribed and confined to a single organ. The recurrence of some inflammatory myofibroblastic tumors and their expression of chromosomal abnormalities found in some types of lymphoma suggest that some of these lesions constitute a true neoplastic process.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Adrenal Cortex Hormones / therapeutic use
  • Female
  • Granuloma, Plasma Cell / diagnostic imaging
  • Granuloma, Plasma Cell / drug therapy
  • Granuloma, Plasma Cell / pathology*
  • Humans
  • Kidney Diseases / diagnostic imaging
  • Kidney Diseases / drug therapy
  • Kidney Diseases / pathology*
  • Lymph Nodes / diagnostic imaging
  • Lymph Nodes / pathology*
  • Recurrence
  • Retroperitoneal Space / diagnostic imaging
  • Retroperitoneal Space / pathology*
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed

Substances

  • Adrenal Cortex Hormones