Surgical treatment for lung metastasis of inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor of the lung: A case report

Hidenobu Iwai, Naoki Yanagawa, Hiroyuki Deguchi, Makoto Tomoyasu, Wataru Shigeeda, Yuka Kaneko, Ryuichi Yoshimura, Hironaga Kanno, Mayu Sugai, Shunsuke Shikanai,

Thoracic Cancer · 2023 · 10 citations · 9 references

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Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor (IMT) is a rare disease that is considered an intermediate neoplasm, with the risk of recurrence and metastasis. Surgical treatment is the standard therapy for IMT, although there are only a few reports of surgery for lung metastasis of pulmonary IMT. We opine that surgical treatment might be effective not only for localized tumors, but also for cases of lung metastasis of IMT.

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