title: Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor of the urinary bladder: A diagnostic challange and therapeutic dilemma.
abstract: Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor (IMT) is a rare, aggressive tumor of indeterminate malignant potential with myofibroblastic differentiation. Though bladder location is very uncommon, it arises from the bladder submucosal stroma as a polypoidal growth and is easily mistaken for a malignant neoplasm- clinically, radiologically and histologically. Essential criteria for the diagnosis of IMT are: spindle myoepithelial cell proliferation and lymphoplasmacytic infiltrate. Here we report the case of a 30 years old man who presented with painless gross haematuria for 2 weeks. The patient underwent open partial cystectomy and the final pathological diagnosis was IMT of bladder.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, Acharya Shri Chander College of Medical Sciences and Hospital, Sidhra, Jammu and Kashmir, India.
authors.forename: Aneeta
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Singh
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, Acharya Shri Chander College of Medical Sciences and Hospital, Sidhra, Jammu and Kashmir, India.
authors.forename: Mega
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Lahori
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, Acharya Shri Chander College of Medical Sciences and Hospital, Sidhra, Jammu and Kashmir, India.
authors.forename: Arvind
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Khajuria
authors.affiliation: Department of Urology, Government Medical College Jammu, Jammu and Kashmir, India.
authors.forename: Sunil
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Gupta
keywords: Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor; lymphoplasmacytic infiltrate; pseudosarcomatous proliferation; urinary bladder neoplasm