Case reportInflammatory Myofibroblastic Tumor Mimicking Anterior Mediastinal Malignancy
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The cause, pathogenesis, and long-term prognosis of inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor are unclear. Based on the pathology features, it was once believed to be purely an inflammatory process [3, 4]. However, in 2000, Lawrence and colleagues [5] reported rearrangement of the anaplastic lymphoma kinase gene in some cases of inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor. Because it may invade adjacent structures, as in our patient, and may have distant metastasis, it is now viewed as a true neoplasm of
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