Child inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor of the kidney misdiagnosed as
Wilms’ tumor : Case report
Yu-Feng Bai1,#, Jing-Zhong Liu1,#,
Li-Na Yue2, Li Chen1, Qiao-Hong
Li1,Sui-Yi Liu1, Rui
Liu1,*
Department of Radiology, The 944th Hospital of Joint Logistics Support
Force of People’s Liberation Army, 22 Xiongguan Road, Jiuquan 735000,
Gansu, China
Department of Radiology, The 940th Hospital of Joint Logistics Support
Force of People’s Liberation Army, 333 Nanbinhe Road, Lanzhou 730050,
Gansu, China
3. Department of Internal medicine, The 944th Hospital of Joint
Logistics Support Force of People’s Liberation Army, 22 Xiongguan
Road, Jiuquan 735000, Gansu, China
# Drs. Bai YF and Liu JZ contributed equally to this project.
*Correspondence should be addressed to Liu R at:
Department of Internal medicine, The 944th Hospital of Joint Logistics
Support Force of People’s Liberation Army, 22 Xiongguan Road, Jiuquan
735000, Gansu, China
mail: 314065124@qq.com; Tel: 13919916790Conflict of interest All authors declare that there is no
conflicts of interest for this work. I would like to declare on behalf
of my co-authors that the case reported was original work that has not
been published elsewhere, in whole or in part.Patient consent statement Written informed consent for
academic use of his information was obtained from the children’s
parents.
Abstract
Renal Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor (IMT) is very rare and lacks
characteristic clinical manifestation and radiographic features. This is
a case discussing the radiologic and pathologic findings of a renal IMT
in a 6-year-old boy who underwent radical nephrectomy for a right renal
mass that was misdiagnosed as Wilms’ tumor.
Key words: Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor, Wilms’ tumor,
renal