Inflammatory myofibroblastic pancreas tumor: a case report
Clinical Case Reports, vol.4, no.12, pp.1122-1124, 2016 (Scopus)
- Publication Type: Article / Article
- Volume: 4 Issue: 12
- Publication Date: 2016
- Doi Number: 10.1002/ccr3.717
- Journal Name: Clinical Case Reports
- Journal Indexes: Scopus
- Page Numbers: pp.1122-1124
- Keywords: Inflammatory tumor, pancreatic mass, surgical resection, Whipple procedure
- İstanbul Yeni Yüzyıl University Affiliated: No
Abstract
Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor (IMT) histologically characterized by fibroblastic and myofibroblastic proliferation with inflammatory infiltrate. The therapy adopted was Whipple's pancreaticoduodenectomy with a histological diagnosis of the inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor. The disease that should be considered as the differential diagnosis is pancreatic cancer. The diagnosis and treatment of IMT is surgical resection.