Radiology Case Reports (Aug 2020)

Rare presentation of inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor in the kidney

  • Hiba Abduljawad, MBBCH BAO NUI (HONS),
  • Ahmet Aslan, MD, Associate professor,
  • Khalifa Aldoseri, MBBCH BAO NUI,
  • Erdem Yilmaz, MD, Associate professor,
  • Wael Ibrahim, MD, PhD

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 15, no. 8
pp. 1266 – 1270

Abstract

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Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor (IMT) is a rare pathologic entity that has been mostly described in the lung. It has been reported in nearly every organ, with occurrence in the kidney being extremely rare. IMT has nonspecific clinical and radiological findings and often mimics a malignant process. This is a case discussing the radiologic and pathologic findings of a renal IMT in a 35-year-old female who underwent radical nephrectomy for a right renal pelvis mass that was mistaken for transitional cell carcinoma.

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