Open AccessInflammatory myofibroblastic tumor of the urinary bladder: A diagnostic challange and therapeutic dilemma
Author(s) -
Aneeta Singh,
Mega Lahori,
Arvind Khajuria,
Sunil Gupta
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
international journal of applied and basic medical research/international journal of applied and basic medical research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2248-9606
pISSN - 2229-516X
DOI - 10.4103/2229-516x.157174
Subject(s) - medicine , pathological , cystectomy , pathology , gross hematuria , stroma , urinary bladder , neoplasm , urology , radiology , bladder cancer , cancer , immunohistochemistry
Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor (IMT) is a rare, aggressive tumor of indeterminate malignant potential with myofibroblastic differentiation. Though bladder location is very uncommon, it arises from the bladder submucosal stroma as a polypoidal growth and is easily mistaken for a malignant neoplasm- clinically, radiologically and histologically. Essential criteria for the diagnosis of IMT are: spindle myoepithelial cell proliferation and lymphoplasmacytic infiltrate. Here we report the case of a 30 years old man who presented with painless gross haematuria for 2 weeks. The patient underwent open partial cystectomy and the final pathological diagnosis was IMT of bladder.