INFLAMMATORY PSEUDOTUMOR OF THE LIVER - REPORT OF A CASE AND REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE

Only 56 cases of inflammatory pseudotumor of the liver have been repor ted in the world literature since its first documentation in 1953. We report herein the case of a 68-year-old man incidentally found to have a lesion in the right lobe of the liver which closely resembled a neo plasm on imaging studies, Thus, partial hepatic resection was performe d and histological examination of the resected specimen revealed a dia gnosis of inflammatory pseudotumor, Surgical resection is the preferre d treatment for inflammatory pseudotumor of the liver, especially in p atients for whom a definite histologic diagnosis cannot be made preope ratively or by intraoperative frozen sections, In fact, most of the pa tients reported in the literature recovered uneventfully after local r esection without any postoperative complications, as did our patient.