Inflammatory fibroid polyp

Inflammatory fibroid polyp is a lesion that most commonly presents in the gastric antrum and the distal small intestine. This lesion is composed of bland spindle... 

Pantanowitz L, Antonioli DA, Pinkus GS, et al. Inflammatory fibroid polyps of the gastrointestinal tract evidence for a dendritic cell origin. Am J Surg Pathol. 2004 28 107-114. 

Hasegawa T, Yang P, Kagawa N, et al. CD34 exptession by inflammatory fibroid polyps of the stomach. Mod Pathol. 1997 10 451-456. 

Makhlouf HR, Sobin LH. Inflammatory myofibroblastic mmors (inflammatory pseudotumors) of the gastrointestinal tract how closely are they related to inflammatory fibroid polyps Hum Pathol. 2002 33 307-315. 

Other gastric polyps in children include inflammatory fibroid polyp, solitary hyperplastic polyp and polypoid focal foveolar hyperplasia (Teele and Share 2000). 

Gastric polyps are mainly small and an incidental finding, although large ones may prolapse and cause retention-like symptoms. They are divided into non-neoplastic (Fig. 3.31) and neoplastic (Fig. 3.32). Of the former 85% are glandular cysts and hyperplastic polyps, the rest inflammatory fibroid polyps and hamartomas. 

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