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Herein, we present a case of a 10-year-old girl with sigmoid IMT who presented to our hospital with abdominal pain. An abdominal computed tomography (CT) revealed a well-defined, slightly low-density mass in her lower abdomen that was not clearly demarcated from the sigmoid colon. The mass showed significant uneven enhancement on contrast-enhanced CT and increased fluorine-18 fluorodeoxyglucose (<jats:sup>18<\/jats:sup>F-FDG) uptake on positron emission tomography (PET). 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