Open AccessFever of unknown origin as a presentation of colonic inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor in a 36-year-old female: A case report
Author(s) -
Ru Zhou,
Jianbin Xiang,
Zongyou Chen,
Zhenyang Li,
Jun Hong
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
oncology letters
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.766
H-Index - 54
eISSN - 1792-1082
pISSN - 1792-1074
DOI - 10.3892/ol.2014.1942
Subject(s) - medicine , malignancy , presentation (obstetrics) , lesion , fever of unknown origin , surgery , abdominal pain , stromal cell , right hemicolectomy , radiology , cancer , colorectal cancer
Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor is a rare type of lesion that mimics malignancy and has various clinical manifestations. The current study presents a 36-year-old female with a colonic mass, which closely resembled a stromal tumor during imaging. The patient experienced intermittent fever and slight abdominal pain for one month. The fever remained at ≤38.5°C until the day of surgery. The patient underwent a right hemicolectomy and the preoperative fever disappeared and did not recur until the patient was discharged.