Rym Sellami-Dhouib, Karima Mrad, Samia Sassi, Maha Driss, Imen Abbes, Hssairi Mounir, Larbi Noureddine, Bouziani Ammar, Khaled Ben Romdhane
Inflammatory pseudotumor (IPT) of the spleen is an uncommon entity with debated etiology, characterized by a mixture of inflammatory cells and a component of myofibroblastic spindle cells. This lesion needs to be distinguished from the follicular dendritic cell tumor and the inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor. We report two cases of splenic PTI in a 69-year old and a 62-year old women. The tumors measured respectively 80 and 30 mn in greatest dimension. An inflammatory pseudotumor was histopathologically diagnosed following a splenectomy...
June 2007: Annales de Pathologie