Fever of unknown origin as a presentation of gastric inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor in a two-year-old boy.
Gastric inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor (IMT) is an extremely rare lesion with mimicking malignant features and accompanied with various clinical manifestations. Here we present a 2-yr-old boy who had a gastric IMT with a huge extragastric mass, which closely resembled a neuroblastoma on imaging studies. He experienced intermittent fever and poor appetite for 6 weeks. Fever remained up to 38 degrees C even on the operation day. He underwent partial gastrectomy and distal pancreatectomy with splenectomy including the tumor. The preoperative fever disappeared and did not recur in the postoperative course.
Cho
Min Young
MY
Department of Surgery, College of Medicine Korea University, Seoul, Korea. minyoung@korea.ac.kr
Min
Youn Ki
YK
Kim
Nam Ryeol
NR
Cho
Seong Jin
SJ
Kim
Han Kyeom
HK
Lee
Kwang Chul
KC
Suh
Sung Ock
SO
Whang
Cheung Wung
CW
D002675:Child, Preschool; D005335:Fever of Unknown Origin / Q000209:etiology*; D006104:Granuloma, Plasma Cell / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D013272:Stomach Diseases / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery