Locally Aggressive and Recurrent Facial Inflammatory Myofibroblastic Tumor in a Pediatric Patient.

Abstract

Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor (IMT) is a rare tumor type with a prognosis ranging from benign to locally aggressive. Initially described as a reactive lesion most commonly of the lungs, cases of IMT have now been reported in rare instances in the head and neck, which may be more aggressive than other tumor locations. IMT frequently afflicts children and adolescents, but pediatric cases of IMT in the head and neck region are rare. This report serves to describe a rare presentation of a recurrent and locally aggressive facial IMT in a pediatric patient that required multiple surgical resections alongside medical management.