| CASE REPORT |
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| Year : 2013 | Volume
: 61
| Issue : 6 | Page : 644--649 |
Recurrent meningeal inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor: A case report and literature review
Maria Pascual-Gallego1, Miguel Yus-Fuertes2, Manuela Jorquera2, Alfredo Gonzalez-Maté3, Luis Ortega4, Armando Martínez-Martínez4, Horacio Zimman1
1 Department of Neurosurgery, Clínico San Carlos University Hospital, Madrid, Spain
2 Department of Image Diagnosis, Clínico San Carlos University Hospital, Madrid, Spain
3 Department of Nuclear Medicine, Clínico San Carlos University Hospital, Madrid, Spain
4 Department of Anatomic Pathology, Clínico San Carlos University Hospital, Madrid, Spain
Correspondence Address:
Maria Pascual-Gallego
Department of Neurosurgery, Hospital Universitario Clínico San Carlos, Prof. Martín Lagos s/n, 28040, Madrid
Spain
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DOI: 10.4103/0028-3886.125273
An inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor (IMT) is a rare lesion with an uncertain prognosis and a disorder difficult to classify. IMTs are a heterogeneous group of lesions, sometimes indistinguishable from meningiomas and other expanding or inflammatory lesions of the central nervous system. This report presents a patient with IMT, who presented with recurrent retroocular pain radiating to the occipital region and no neurologic deficits. He had early recurrence in spite of total resection of the lesion. The clinical profile of 18 patients with either progression or recurrence has been reviewed
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