title: Fever of unknown origin as a presentation of gastric inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor in a two-year-old boy.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, College of Medicine Korea University, Seoul, Korea. minyoung@korea.ac.kr
authors.forename: Min Young
authors.initials: MY
authors.lastname: Cho
authors.forename: Youn Ki
authors.initials: YK
authors.lastname: Min
authors.forename: Nam Ryeol
authors.initials: NR
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Seong Jin
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Cho
authors.forename: Han Kyeom
authors.initials: HK
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Kwang Chul
authors.initials: KC
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Sung Ock
authors.initials: SO
authors.lastname: Suh
authors.forename: Cheung Wung
authors.initials: CW
authors.lastname: Whang
mesh_terms: 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