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- Bingxue Cheng, Chen Yang, Zhou Liu, Lijian Liu, and Li Zhou.
- Department of Radiology, The First Affiliated Hospital, Nanchang University, Nanchang, Jiangxi, People's Republic of China.
- Medicine (Baltimore). 2018 Dec 1; 97 (50): e13423.
RationalePrimary gastric inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor is extremely rare. Only a few cases were reported in the domestic and foreign medical literature with corresponding imaging findings of this disease even more rarely reported.Patient ConcernsWe present one case of a 52-year-old female patient with upper abdominal pain, acid reflux, and belching for 2 months.Diagnoses And InterventionsElectron ultrasound gastroscopy (EUS) revealed elevation of gastric antrum mucosa. A whole abdominal and pelvic multi-slice spiral computed tomography (CT) detected a round nodule in the gastric antrum with considerably delayed enhancement, with initial suspicion of gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GISTS). Then a laparoscopic assisted distal gastrectomy was performed. Finally, the postoperative pathology confirmed the diagnosis of primary gastric IMT.OutcomesAfter 6 months of follow-up, the patient was still alive without any evidence of metastasis or recurrence.LessonsFamiliarizing with the CT features of this rare tumor may raise radiologists' awareness of the disease and potentially could avoid misdiagnosis.
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