[Inflammatory pseudotumor of the spleen: two case reports].
Inflammatory pseudotumor (IPT) of the spleen is an uncommon entity with debated etiology, characterized by a mixture of inflammatory cells and a component of myofibroblastic spindle cells. This lesion needs to be distinguished from the follicular dendritic cell tumor and the inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor. We report two cases of splenic PTI in a 69-year old and a 62-year old women. The tumors measured respectively 80 and 30 mn in greatest dimension. An inflammatory pseudotumor was histopathologically diagnosed following a splenectomy.
Sellami-Dhouib
Rym
R
Service d'Anatomie et de Cytologie Pathologiques, Institut Salah Azaïez, Bab Saadoun, 1006 Tunis, Tunisie.
Mrad
Karima
K
Sassi
Samia
S
Driss
Maha
M
Abbes
Imen
I
Mounir
Hssairi
H
Noureddine
Larbi
L
Ammar
Bouziani
B
Ben Romdhane
Khaled
K
D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006104:Granuloma, Plasma Cell / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D007249:Inflammation / Q000473:pathology*; D008875:Middle Aged; D013160:Splenic Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery