A Case Report of Intra-abdominal Desmoid Tumor Located in the Mesentery of the Colon

Yatsushi Nishi, Kouichi Itabashi, Moyuru Tateishi, Kouichi Sato, Humihiko Tadokoro, Youhei Yasokawa, Tadashi Motoori*, Katsumi Tadokoro**

Department of Surgery, Department of Pathology*, Department of Radiology**, Kitasato Institute Medical Center Hospital

Intra-abdominal desmoid tumors are rare. Only 39 cases with this lesion have been reported in the Japanese literature since 1970. The clinical details of a patient with an intra-abdominal desmoid tumor located in the mesentery of the colon are reported. The patient, a 51-year-old woman, visited our hospital with a chief complaint of epigastralgia. Based on the findings of ultrasonography, CT, MRI and angiography, a mesenchymal tumor was suspected. The tumor was 9.5×9×8.5 cm in size, 400 g in weight and grayish white in color with an elastic hard consistency. The histological diagnosis was an intra-abdominal desmoid tumor. The postoperative course was uneventful and the patient has been well and disease free for a year, to date.

Key words
intra-abdominal desmoid tumor

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Yatsushi Nishi Department of Surgery, Kitasato Institute Medical Center Hospital
6-100 Arai, Kitamoto-city, 364 JAPAN

Accepted
March 19, 1997

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