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Currently, however, inflammatory pseudotumor designates a large and heterogeneous group of soft tissue tumors that includes inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor, plasma cell granuloma, xanthomatous pseudotumor, solitary mast cell granuloma, inflammatory fibrosarcoma, [4] pseudosarcomatous myofibroblastic proliferation, myofibroblastoma ...
Medical imaging may suggest but cannot prove that a tumor is MFB. Mammography, computed tomography scans, and magnetic resonance imaging of mammary [1] [12] and extramammary [1] [13] MFB typically show well-defined and well-circumscribed tumors which in almost all cases have no calcifications; these results suggest that the tumor is not malignant but do not indicate which type it might be.
Mammary-type myofibroblastoma [14] Myofibrobastoma, also termed myofibroblastoma of soft tissues, is a mammary-type myofibroblastoma that occurs in non-mammary tissues [15] and may be as much as 10-fold more common than the mammary type. [14] Calcifying aponeurotic fibroma, also termed aponeurotic fibroma [16]
The signs and symptoms are non-specific, i.e. it is not possible to diagnose an IPM from the symptoms and manner in which they present. [ citation needed ] The main (clinical) differential diagnosis of IPM is metastatic cancer , e.g. squamous cell carcinoma , malignant melanoma , adenocarcinoma .
Combined modality chemotherapy is the use of drugs with other cancer treatments, such as surgery, radiation therapy, or hyperthermia therapy. Consolidation chemotherapy is given after remission in order to prolong the overall disease-free time and improve overall survival. The drug that is administered is the same as the drug that achieved ...
The surgeries and complex treatment regimens used in cancer therapy have led the term to be used mainly to describe adjuvant cancer treatments. An example of such adjuvant therapy is the additional treatment [ 1 ] usually given after surgery where all detectable disease has been removed, but where there remains a statistical risk of relapse due ...
Pharmacotherapy, also known as pharmacological therapy or drug therapy, is defined as medical treatment that utilizes one or more pharmaceutical drugs to improve ongoing symptoms (symptomatic relief), treat the underlying condition, or act as a prevention for other diseases (prophylaxis).
In hematology, plasma cell dyscrasias (also termed plasma cell disorders and plasma cell proliferative diseases) are a spectrum of progressively more severe monoclonal gammopathies in which a clone or multiple clones of pre-malignant or malignant plasma cells (sometimes in association with lymphoplasmacytoid cells or B lymphocytes) over-produce and secrete into the blood stream a myeloma ...