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Case Reports
. 2015 Aug;37(6):e390-3.
doi: 10.1097/MPH.0000000000000353.

Inflammatory Myofibroblastic Tumor of the Kidney and Bilateral Lung Nodules in a Child Mimicking Wilms Tumor With Lung Metastases

Mehmet S Dogan  1 , Selim Doganay, Gonca Koc, Sureyya B Gorkem, Ekrem Unal, Figen Ozturk, Abdulhakim Coskun
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Inflammatory Myofibroblastic Tumor of the Kidney and Bilateral Lung Nodules in a Child Mimicking Wilms Tumor With Lung Metastases

Mehmet S Dogan et al. J Pediatr Hematol Oncol. 2015 Aug.

Abstract

Renal inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor (IMT) is an extremely rare lesion especially in children. This report describes a case of renal IMT accompanied by multiple lung nodules mimicking Wilms tumor with lung metastasis in a 3-year-old boy. To our knowledge, this is a unique case of IMT which has not been reported in the literature previously.

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