Discussion On presentation, IMTs can constitute a formidable challenge, from diagnosis
through to treatment. In this report, we present the case of a patient with a retroperitoneal …

Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumors are rare, and those located retroperitoneally are even
rarer. The authors present the case of a 52-year-old male farmer with a lump in the lower …

Introduction Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumors (IMT) while uncommon may arise within
numerous organs. Historically, the literature regarding IMT has been confined to small one …

Myofibroblasts are spindle cells having ultrastructural features in common with smooth
muscle cells and fibroblasts. In the last few years, tumours have been described in which …

We report a case of inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor (inflammatory pseudotumor) arising
in the soft tissue of the right forearm and progressing into frank spindle cell sarcoma after …

Tumours and tumour-like lesions of myofibroblasts may present diagnostic difficulty because
of their rarity and because of uncertainties in identifying the myofibroblast. The objectives of …

When one enters the phrase ''inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor''(IMT) into PubMed, one
obtains more than 200 citations dating from the 1980s; one of the first studies using this …

The concept of the inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor (IMT) has evolved from an already
perplexing pathological process, the inflammatory pseudotumor, which was initially …

The term inflammatory pseudotumour was originally used in a generic fashion for any lesion
which simulated a neoplastic condition at a clinical, macroscopic and microscopic level but …

It is likely that inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor represents a continuum of tumorous
lesions characterized by myofibroblastic and fibroblastic proliferation with a prominent …