A case of Pulmonary Inflammatory Fibroblastic Tumor with Clinical, Radiological, Histopathological Features and 2-year follow-up Results and Review of the Literature

DİROL H., ÖZBUDAK Ö.

TURK ONKOLOJI DERGISI-TURKISH JOURNAL OF ONCOLOGY, vol.34, no.4, pp.302-306, 2019 (ESCI) identifier identifier

  • Publication Type: Article / Review
  • Volume: 34 Issue: 4
  • Publication Date: 2019
  • Doi Number: 10.5505/tjo.2019.1888
  • Journal Name: TURK ONKOLOJI DERGISI-TURKISH JOURNAL OF ONCOLOGY
  • Journal Indexes: Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), Scopus, TR DİZİN (ULAKBİM)
  • Page Numbers: pp.302-306
  • Keywords: Inflammatory pseudotumor, lung neoplasms, pulmonary inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor (pulmonary IMT), plasma cell granuloma, tuberculosis, xanthogranuloma, MYOFIBROBLASTIC TUMOR, PSEUDOTUMOR
  • Akdeniz University Affiliated: Yes

Abstract

Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor (IMT) is a mesenchymal neoplasm. So in any organ, IMT has the potential of development. The most common sites that it arises are the lungs. It can occur in any age, but predominantly in children and adolescents. The etiology is not known. It is poorly understood on genetic and molecular level either. Clinical symptoms and radiological features are nonspecific in pulmonary IMT, can imitate lung cancer or tuberculosis. Diagnosis is based on histopathologic or immunohistochemical evaluation. The biological behavior is highly unpredictable, rarely metastase, frequently re-occure. Therapeutic approach rely mainly on complete surgical resection although there is no guideline for the treatment or follow-up. Here in, we report a pulmonary IMT case with clinical, radiological, histopathological features, and 2 year follow up results after complete surgical resection.