Authors: Yusuf Yagmur Sami Akbulut Serdar Gumus
Publish Date: 2014/08/14
Volume: 45, Issue: 4, Pages: 414-420
Abstract
We present a new case of mesenteric IPT We also conducted a systematic search of the Englishlanguage medical literature using PubMed Medline Google and Google Scholar related to mesenteric or omental IPTs The following search terms were used in various combinations inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor IPT mesentery and omentum The search included articles published in the English language between January 1978 and April 2014 Studies were excluded if the full text was unavailable or missing information prohibited comparisonsA total of 30 reports concerning 36 patients with inflammatory pseudotumors meeting the aforementioned criteria were included The patients were aged from 10 months to 68 years mean 1998 ± 205 years 12 were female 1675 ± 1697 years range 10 months to 68 years and 24 were male 216 ± 219 years range 18 months to 63 years Detailed clinical and pathologic characteristics of 36 patients with IPTs are provided in Table 1IPTs may be definitively diagnosed only by histopathological examination and are most effectively treated by resection with negative surgical borders No consensus has yet been reached regarding when nonsurgical treatment options are most appropriate in management of these lesions IPTs often recur locally while distant metastases are very rare Postoperative close surveillance is essential to detect recurrences early
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