Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor is a neoplasia of unknown clinical etiology that clinically and radiologically tends to mimic a malignant neoplasm. The tumor is histologically composed of a mixture of inflammatory cells, myofibroblastic spindle cells and plasma cells. It can occur in any part of the body. Although pulmonary inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor is the most common primary lung mass especially in childhood, this entity is usually not considered in differential diagnosis of lung nodules or masses. In this article, we aimed to disscus the pathology and imaging findings of the pulmonary inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor and increase the familiarity of radiologists and clinicians to this entity.