A Case of Mesenteric Fibromatosis with a Giant Abdominal Tumor

Shiro Terashita, Genta Ichimiya, Yasuhito Kobayashi, Etsuo Kodama, Jun Michiura, Yasutsugu Shirai, Hiroshi Tanimura*

Department of Surgery, Wakayama Rosai Hospital
*Department of Gastroenterological Surgery, Wakayama Medical College

Mesenteric fibromatosis is well known as a complication of familial colonic polyposis coli or Gardner's syndrome but occurs very rarely in the abdominal cavity alone. We experienced a case of mesenteric fibromatosis with a giant abdominal tumor weighing over 7 kg and originating in the mesenterium. This lesion is a benign tumor characterized by growth and infiltration of fibrous tissue without metastasis. Therefore complete removal of the total tumor is relatively easy and definitive surgical treatment should be performed in spite of suspicion of malignancy in the clinical findings.

Key words
mesenteric fibromatosis

Reprint requests
Shiro Terashita Department of Surgery, Wakayama Rosai Hospital
435 Koya, Wakayama, 640 JAPAN

Accepted
October 7, 1992

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