Definition of "myofibroblastic" []

• Relating to myofibroblasts (adjective)

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• "All the time, the growth - known as an inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor - continued to grow in her abdomen, causing pain, making it hard to eat and swelling her up with fluid."
• "Alannah Shevenell of Hollis, Maine., got a new esophagus, liver, stomach, spleen, pancreas and small intestine after losing her own to a myofibroblastic tumor."
• "In a second study in the same journal, crizotinib was effective in a 44-year-old man with inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor, a rare form of sarcoma, which is also driven by the ALK abnormality, said Shapiro, who was senior author of that paper."