Adult Intestinal Intussusception Caused by an Inflammatory Myofibroblastic Tumor

• Main Authors: Satoshi Ida, Hosei Matsuzaki, Shinichi Kawashima, Masayuki Watanabe, Yasuhiro Akiyama, Hideo Baba
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Karger Publishers 2013-05-01
• Series: Case Reports in Gastroenterology
• Subjects: Adult intussusception; Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor; Ultrasonography
• Online Access: http://www.karger.com/Article/FullText/351825

Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor (IMT), which usually affects young adults and children, is a solid neoplastic mesenchymal proliferation composed of myofibroblastic spindle cells admixed with inflammatory infiltrates. Numerous extrapulmonary sites of these tumors have been found, but intestinal IMT is rare, especially in elderly patient. Its diagnosis is recognized as difficult because the patients usually do not have a specific symptom. Here, we present the case of a 79-year-old man with an IMT that caused small intestinal intussusception, which was diagnosed by abdominal ultrasonography. We review the literature on IMT and specially focus on the diagnostic modalities for this disease.