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HEAD AND NECK-JOURNAL FOR THE SCIENCES AND SPECIALTIES OF THE HEAD AND NECK
Volume 37, Issue 1, Pages E4-E7Publisher
WILEY-BLACKWELL
DOI: 10.1002/hed.23704
Keywords
headache; immunoglobulin (Ig)G4-related sclerosing disease; inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor; intracranial hypertension; sigmoid sinus
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [81100877]
- PhD Programs Foundation of the Ministry of Education of China [20113420120003]
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BackgroundInflammatory myofibroblastic tumor (IMT) and some types of immunoglobulin (Ig) G4-related disease are often involved in the spectrum of inflammatory pseudotumor (IPT) and the concept of IgG4-related IPT/IMT has recently been proposed. MethodsA 38-year-old man complained of initial symptoms of blurred vision and headache. ResultsA tumor was found in the right mastoid, which caused occlusion of the right sigmoid sinus and intracranial hypertension. A diagnosis of IMT with IgG4+ plasma cell infiltration was established by surgical, pathological, and immunohistochemistry findings. His symptoms were completely relieved after corticosteroid therapy and no recurrence was detected during 22 months of follow-up. ConclusionA case with cerebral venous sinus infiltrated by IMTs in the head and neck has never been reported; corticosteroid therapy proved satisfactory in IMT with IgG4+ plasma cell infiltration. (c) 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Head Neck37: E4-E7, 2015
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