Resumen

MARCOS MELLADO PEREZ, Adrián; HERNANDEZ CUBAS, Mario Orlando  y  LARA MARTIN, Manuel. Vanek's tumor or inflammatory fibroid polyp. Report of a case. Rev. Med. Electrón. [online]. 2013, vol.35, n.4, pp. 404-410. ISSN 1684-1824.

The Vanek's tumor or inflammatory fibroid polyp (IFP) is a rare benign lesion of submucosal location, not encapsulated, that may be located throughout the digestive tract, being more common in the gastric antrum (80%), although it has also been described in the gastroesophageal junction, duodenum, jejunum, ileum and colon. It is the less frequent benign gastric tumor (1-4%) with slight predominance in males and a peak incidence after the sixth decade of life, being its process of getting malignant an exceptional event. This case report presents a 47-year-old male patient with a Vanek's tumor of antral localization that was diagnosed at the Teaching Provincial Hospital Arnaldo Milian Castro, of Santa Clara.

Palabras clave : inflammatory fibroid polyp; Vanek´s tumor; histopathologic inform.

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