Metachronous Inflammatory Pseudotumor involving the Lung and the Brain: a case report

Abstract Inflammatory pseudotumors (IPT) is a rare neoplasm and frequently involved in the lung during childhood. IPT metachronous or synchronize involves lung and brain is quite rare. Only five cases were reported in English literature and all of them were male children and adolescents, here we reported the sixth case in the middle-aged woman. The definitive diagnosis of the lesions depends on histopathology, which radiological appearance is easily mimic lung cancer combined with brain metastasis.