title: Lower abdominal inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor -an unusual presentation- a case report and brief literature review.
abstract: A 9-year-old girl presented with lethargy, malaise & chest pain. Her blood counts confirmed hypochromic microcytic anemia. She was prescribed iron supplements. Subsequently she was admitted to our hospital with fever and increasing chest and abdominal pain. She was treated with antibiotics, and a diagnosis of "early chest infection" was made. Over the following 2 weeks she failed to improve, and her anemia worsened. She was readmitted, and found to have a mass in her lower abdomen with pressure symptoms on her bowel and bladder. A white-cell scan showed increased uptake in right lower quadrant. An ultrasound and a CT scan confirmed a mass adjacent to her bladder. Needle biopsy showed it to be an unusual localization of an inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor (IMT) of cecum. A presentation with chest pain, fever, anemia and pressure symptoms was highly unusual of a lower abdominal IMT mass. She had a successful excision of the tumor, with resolution of her symptoms.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatrics, West Cumberland Hospital, Hensingham, Whitehaven, Cumbria, UK. muhammad.saleem@ncumbria-acute.nhs.uk
authors.forename: M Ilyas
authors.initials: MI
authors.lastname: Saleem
authors.forename: Mahfud A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Ben-Hamida
authors.forename: Andrew M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Barrett
authors.forename: Susan K
authors.initials: SK
authors.lastname: Bunn
authors.forename: Lawrence
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Huntley
authors.forename: Katrina M
authors.initials: KM
authors.lastname: Wood
authors.forename: T Mesud
authors.initials: TM
authors.lastname: Yelbuz
mesh_terms: D015746:Abdominal Pain / Q000209:etiology; D000747:Anemia, Hypochromic / Q000209:etiology*; D002429:Cecal Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis*; D002637:Chest Pain / Q000209:etiology*; D002648:Child; D005221:Fatigue / Q000209:etiology; D005260:Female; D005334:Fever / Q000209:etiology*; D006104:Granuloma, Plasma Cell / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D011312:Pressure