Case reportEndotracheal Inflammatory Pseudotumor: The Role of Interventional Bronchoscopy
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The IMT has been referred to by different names, including histiocytoma, fibrous histiocytoma, xanthoma, xanthofibroma, xantogranuloma, and plasma cell granuloma [1, 2]. The most common name for the IMT, and in our opinion also the most adequate denomination, is inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor or inflammatory pseudotumor.
The IMT is defined by the World Health Organization as a distinctive lesion composed of a myofibroblastic spindle cell population accompanied by an inflammatory infiltrate
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