Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor of the urinary bladder

Abstract

Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor (IMT) of bladder is an uncommon benign tumor of bladder, which is of unknown neoplastic potential, characterized by spindle cell proliferation with characteristic fibroinflammatory and pseudosarcomatous appearance. Essential criteria for the diagnosis of IMT are: spindle myoepithelial cell proliferation and lymphocytic infiltrate. Complete surgical resection is the treatment of choice.

Keywords

• Immunohistochemical staining
• inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor
• spindle myoepithelial cell proliferation