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Iranian Journal of Cancer Prevention. 2014; 7 (4): 244-247
in English | IMEMR | ID: emr-154590

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Inflammatory pseudotumour describes as a wide range of neoplastic and reactive lesions. One of the rare presentations of these tumors is found in the salpinx. This case report characterizes a thirty six year old woman with a history of left sided abdominal pain for a few months. Further examinations revealed that she had a complex cyst in her left salpinx. The patient had normal levels of tumor markers such as CA125, Alfa Fetoprotein [AFP], and Human Chorionic Gonadotropin [hCG], while other paraclinical test were in normal values Additionaly The patient underwent left salpingectomy by a gynecologist. The pathological diagnosis of the lesion was inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor [IMT]. In immunohistochemistry the tumor stains was moderately positive in anaplastic lymphoma kinase [ALK] and also actin positive. Total resection of tumor was performed with no complications and remained disease free during follow up for 40 months. Although Inflammatory Myofibroblastic Tumor [IMT] is benign in nature, but in order to improve the prognosis, this tumor requires low intensity surgical treatment

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