1.Fever of Unknown Origin as a Presentation of Gastric Inflammatory Myofibroblastic Tumor in a Two-Year-Old Boy.
Min Young CHO ; Youn Ki MIN ; Nam Ryeol KIM ; Seong Jin CHO ; Han Kyeom KIM ; Kwang Chul LEE ; Sung Ock SUH ; Cheung Wung WHANG
Journal of Korean Medical Science 2002;17(5):699-703
Gastric inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor (IMT) is an extremely rare lesion with mimicking malignant features and accompanied with various clinical manifestations. Here we present a 2-yr-old boy who had a gastric IMT with a huge extragastric mass, which closely resembled a neuroblastoma on imaging studies. He experienced intermittent fever and poor appetite for 6 weeks. Fever remained up to 38degrees C even on the operation day. He underwent partial gastrectomy and distal pancreatectomy with splenectomy including the tumor. The preoperative fever disappeared and did not recur in the postoperative course.
Child, Preschool
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Fever of Unknown Origin/*etiology
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Granuloma, Plasma Cell/*complications/*diagnosis/surgery
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Humans
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Male
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Stomach Diseases/*complications/*diagnosis/surgery