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Reminder of important clinical lesson
The disappearing abdominal mass: a duodenal pseudotumour
  1. Faraan Khan1,
  2. Sheida Vessal2
  1. 1Department of General Medicine, Barnet Hospital, London, UK
  2. 2Department of Clinical Radiology, Barnet Hospital, London, UK
  1. Correspondence to Dr Faraan Khan, Faraan{at}doctors.org.uk

Summary

Reports of inflammatory pseudotumours can be found in the literature affecting different organs of the body. The authors present a case and discuss the differential diagnosis of an inflammatory duodenal mass. Both symptomatology and radiological findings suggested a more sinister cause, such as a malignancy. However, histological analysis revealed normal mucosa and after conservative management the mass spontaneously resolved.

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