Intra-abdominal inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor : a case report and literature review

Abstract EN

Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor (IMT) is very rare solid tumor; it is of unknown origin, characterized by unpredictable clinical behavior.

It arises from soft tissues of almost every organ and the most common site is the lung.

We describe here a case of intra-abdominal IMT in a boy of 6 years old presented with symptoms and signs of acute abdomen with intra-abdominal mass.

The aim of reporting this case is to clarify the importance of the rare tumors in the differential diagnosis of intraabdominal masses beside the more common tumors like appendicular mass, non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma or gastrointestinal stromal tumor.