[Inflammatory pseudotumor of the spleen: a case report]

ABSTRACT

Since the publication of the first two cases in 1984 by Cotelingam and Jaffe, a hundred of cases were published concerning the splenic inflammatory pseudotumor. The inflammatory pseudotumor is a benign lesion of unknown etiology. It forms a group of solid mesenchymal tumors occurring in different organs mainly in adulthood with female predominance. Symptomatic patients most often manifest fever, abdominal pain and splenomegaly. A substantial proportion of the inflammatory pseudotumors of the spleen are discovered incidentally. In this article we report a case of inflammatory pseudotumor in a 41-year-old male patient. The diagnosis of inflammatory pseudotumor of the spleen is made up by the histological and immunohistochemical examination