Inflammatory Myofibroblastic Tumour of the Submandibular Gland

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Asterios Triantafyllou Dorota Chudek Jamie Thomas Nicholas Roland

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Dorota Chudek
Ear, Nose and Throat Department, Aintree University Hospital, Lower Lane, L9 7AL, Liverpool, Merseyside

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A 77-year-old man presented with a two-month history of a left sided, firm, and non-tender submandibular mass. The patient was systemically well with no history of weight loss or night sweats. On examination, there were no oropharyngeal abnormalities and flexible nasendoscopy was normal. An ultrasound scan and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) confirmed a 2.8 x 2.4 x 4.3cm irregular mass in level I of the neck with a chain of small lymph nodes. Following inconclusive fine needle aspirations (FNA) and a core biopsy, an excision of the submandibular gland was performed. The pathology revealed an inflammatory myofibroblastic tumour (IMT) of the submandibular gland. To complete treatment a selective neck dissection and post-operative radiotherapy was performed. IMTs are rare, poorly understood tumours that can occur anywhere in the body. The incidence in the head and neck regions accounts for a small number of all cases. We present a rare case of IMT in the submandibular gland.

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Case Report

Publication history

Received: Sun 08, Sep 2019
Accepted: Thu 26, Sep 2019
Published: Thu 17, Oct 2019

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© 2023 Dorota Chudek. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Hosting by Science Repository.
DOI: 10.31487/j.SCR.2019.05.03