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We describe a case of an unusual multicentric appearance of an inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor, consisting of multiple gastrointestinal masses with different growth patterns and simultaneous, distant, musculoskeletal manifestations. CT and MR imaging features demonstrated a different degree of lesion enhancement, which proved histologically to be related to an alternation of predominantly spindle cell areas with a myxoid-vascular IMT subtype. A clear separation of the imaging characteristics of this tumor’s subtypes by correlation with the pathology was not possible because of the mixed histologic character of the tumor in all its locations. However, MRI signal in the T2-weighted sequence was lower in the spindle cell variant localized predominantly in the musculoskeletal system, while the gastrointestinal predominantly myxoid-vascular counterparts showed slightly higher signal in the T2-weighted sequence.
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Horger, M., Pfannenberg, C., Bitzer, M. et al. Synchronous gastrointestinal and musculoskeletal manifestations of different subtypes of inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor: CT, MRI and pathological features. Eur Radiol 15, 1713–1716 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00330-004-2453-7
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