Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor of the stomach in an adult woman: a rare intermittent cause of gastric outlet obstruction.
BACKGROUND
Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor is a neoplasm of intermediate biological potential that frequently recurs and rarely metastasizes.


METHODS
We report a rare case of intermittent gastric outlet obstruction by an inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor of the cardia.


RESULTS
A 56-year-old woman presented at the gastroenterology department with a two-day history of hematemesis and melena. She had intermittent nausea and vomiting complaints, which had manifested periodically for about five months. Upper gastrointestinal endoscopy demonstrated a mass of 6 cm in diameter, which was resected. Histological examination revealed ulcerated mucosal granulation-like tissue with myofibroblastic spindle cell proliferation in a storiform pattern.


CONCLUSIONS
In order to avoid unnecessary aggressive therapy, gastric IMT should be taken into account when a gastric mass accompanied by the various clinical manifestations of IMT is found in an adult.
Albayrak
Fatih
F
Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Ataturk University, Erzurum, Turkey. fatihalbayrakerz@gmail.com
Dursun
Hakan
H
Albayrak
Yavuz
Y
Altas
Sare
S
Uyanik
Abdullah
A
Yildirim
Rahsan
R
D005260:Female; D017219:Gastric Outlet Obstruction / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D007249:Inflammation; D008875:Middle Aged; D009379:Neoplasms, Muscle Tissue / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology*; D013274:Stomach Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology*