The enigmatic inflammatory pseudotumours: the current state of our understanding, or misunderstanding
2000; Volume: 192; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1002/1096-9896(200011)192
ISSN1096-9896
Autores Tópico(s)Infectious Disease Case Reports and Treatments
ResumoThe inflammatory pseudotumour is a bona fide tumour in the sense of a mass lesion, which is known to present in virtually every anatomic region and organ from the central nervous system to the gastrointestinal tract. A fundamental question about pathogenesis is whether the inflammatory pseudotumour is a pseudo-or true neoplasm. There is evidence to support the argument that some of these fibroinflammatory masses are infection-associated and are often characterized by a proliferation of spindled histiocytes and/or dendritic cells, in contrast to a myofibroblastic proliferation in the other inflammatory pseudotumour, also known as the inflammatory myofibroblastic tumour. Copyright © 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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