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Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumour of larynx

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 March 2006

S. Martínez
Affiliation:
Department of Histopathology, Hospital Verge de la Cinta, Tortosa, (Tarragona), Spain..
R. Bosch
Affiliation:
Department of Histopathology, Hospital Verge de la Cinta, Tortosa, (Tarragona), Spain..
J. Pardo
Affiliation:
Department of Histopathology, Hospital Verge de la Cinta, Tortosa, (Tarragona), Spain..
M. T. Salvadó
Affiliation:
Department of Histopathology, Hospital Verge de la Cinta, Tortosa, (Tarragona), Spain..
T. Alvaro
Affiliation:
Department of Histopathology, Hospital Verge de la Cinta, Tortosa, (Tarragona), Spain..

Abstract

Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumour (IMT) is a benign pseudoneoplastic proliferation, mainly developing in the lung and extremely rare in the larynx. A patient with a two-month history of dysphonia and a polypoid left true vocal fold tumour is presented. Histological and clinical knowledge of this lesion is important to exclude a misdiagnosis (e.g. malignant epithelial or mesenchymal tumours) and an inappropriate treatment.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© Royal Society of Medicine Press Limited 2001

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