Inflammatory Pseudotumor Causing Small Bowel Obstruction and Mimicking Lymphoma in a Patient with AIDS: Clinical Improvement After Initiation of Thalidomide Treatment

Overview

Journal Clin Infect Dis

Publisher Oxford University Press

Specialty Infectious Diseases

Date 2000 May 18

PMID 10816156

Citations 8

Authors

D M Aboulafia

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Abstract

A patient with AIDS was diagnosed with inflammatory pseudotumor with small bowel involvement. After receiving thalidomide treatment, serum tumor necrosis factor (TNF) and soluble TNF receptor II levels normalized, his constitutional and gastrointestinal symptoms diminished, and the mass lesion shrunk.

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