Mesenteric inflammatory myofibroblastic tumors in an elder patient with early recurrence: a case report.
Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor (IMT) of the alimentary tract often occurs in children or young adults, but may occur at any age. Symptoms are nonspecific and depend on the location of the tumor. The most often involved sites are small bowel mesentery especially the distal ileum, mesotransverse colon, or great omentum. Recurrence appears to be more frequent in the extrapulmonary lesion. Herein we demonstrate a 63-year-old male patient with mesenteric IMT, with an early recurrence after his first operation. We should be aware that if the tumor is larger than 8 cm, multinodular, omental, with ill-defined margin, with pathologically atypia, or ganglion-like cells, a close surveillance after primary surgery with image study might be necessary to detect the tumor recurrence early. Tumor recurrence may be asymptomatic, and it may act like a malignant tumor with a poor prognosis.
Division of General Surgery, Department of Surgery, Veterans General Hospital-Kaohsiung, No.386, Ta-Chung 1st Rd., Kaohsiung 813, Taiwan, China.
Sheng-Shih
SS
Chen
Shiuh-Inn
SI
Liu
King-Tong
KT
Mok
Being-Whey
BW
Wang
Ming-Hsin
MH
Yeh
Yu-Chia
YC
Chen
I-Shu
IS
Chen
D006801:Humans; D007813:Laparotomy; D008297:Male; D008643:Mesentery; D008875:Middle Aged; D009364:Neoplasm Recurrence, Local / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D010534:Peritoneal Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D011379:Prognosis; D012086:Reoperation; D012983:Soft Tissue Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*