Inflammatory pseudotumor: a gallium-avid mobile mesenteric mass.
An 8-yr-old boy with a 1-mo history of culture-negative fever and anemia underwent gallium, ultrasound, and computed tomography studies as part of the evaluation of a fever of unknown origin. These studies revealed a mobile gallium-avid solid abdominal mass subsequently proven to be an inflammatory pseudotumor of the mesentery, a rare benign mass. This report documents the gallium-avid nature of this rare lesion and discusses associated characteristic clinical, pathologic, and radiographic features.
Auringer
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Department of Radiology, Bowman Gray School of Medicine, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27103.
Scott
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Sumner
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D002648:Child; D003952:Diagnostic Imaging; D005350:Fibroma / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*; D005710:Gallium Radioisotopes / Q000627:therapeutic use; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008643:Mesentery; D010534:Peritoneal Neoplasms / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014463:Ultrasonography
D005710:Gallium Radioisotopes