Table 1.
Clinicopathological features of IMTs in the mandible described in the present and previous reports
| No. | Authors (yr.) | Age (yr.) | Sex | Diagnosis | ALK-IHC | FISH | RT-PCR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Zegarelli (1974) [7] | 56 | F | Granuloma (?IPT) | NA | NA | NA |
| 2 | Inui (1993) [9] | 63 | M | IPT | NA | NA | NA |
| 3 | Brooks (2005) [10] | 82 | F | IMT | positive | NA | NA |
| 4 | Poh (2005) [11] | 42 | F | IMT | positive | NA | NA |
| 5 | Oh (2008) [12] | 20 | F | IPT | NA | NA | NA |
| 6 | Johann (2008) [13] | 33 | M | IPT | NA | NA | NA |
| 7 | Satomi (2010) [14] | 14 | F | IMT | negative | NA | NA |
| 8 | Date (2010) [15] | 70 | M | IPT | negative | NA | NA |
| 9 | Sasagawa (2011) [16] | 60 | M | IMT | NA | NA | NA |
| 10 | Gawande (2012) [17] | 20 | M | IPT | NA | NA | NA |
| 11 | Sah (2013) [18] | 30 | M | IMT | negative | NA | NA |
| 12 | Stringer (2014) [19] | 16 | M | IMT | positive | NA | NA |
| 13 | Present case | 11 | F | IMT | positive | positive | ATIC-ALK |
ALK anaplastic lymphoma kinase, IHC immunohistochemistry, FISH Fluorescene in situ hybridization, F female, M male, IPT Inflammatory pseudotumor, IMT Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor, NA data not available