Hong SW, Lee WY, Chang YG, Lee B, Lee HK, Kim HK. Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor mimicking hepatocellular carcinoma with dense lipiodol uptake.
JOURNAL OF THE KOREAN SURGICAL SOCIETY 2013;
85:89-92. [PMID:
23908967 PMCID:
PMC3729993 DOI:
10.4174/jkss.2013.85.2.89]
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Abstract
Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor (IMT) of the liver is a very rare lesion that has radiologic similarity with malignant liver tumor. Differential diagnosis of IMT from a malignant lesion of the liver is very important because surgical resection is not mandatory for IMT. Lipiodol computed tomography is a very sensitive and specific diagnostic tool for hepatocellular carcinomas (HCC). Herein, we describe a case of IMT that had dense lipiodol uptake in the tumor and mimicked HCC. To our knowledge, previously, only one case of IMT with dense lipiodol retention has been reported.
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