A Case Report of Mesenteric Fibromatosis occurred from the Mesentery of the Samll Intestine without Surgical Intervention or Polyposis Coli

Ei Sekoguchi, Kenji Tsuchie, Takao Kunou, Humihiko Yoneyama, Kazuo Nishimoto, Tetsuro Nagasaka*

Department of Surgery, Meijo Hospital
*Department of Laboratory Medicine, Nagoya University, School of Medicine

Case report of mesenteric fibromatosis is rare. Especially it without polyposis coli or surgical intervention is very rare. 61-year-old man was admitted to the hospital complained of abdominal tumor. Abdominal ultrasonography, computed tomography, and magnetic resonance imaging revealed a tumor that may have developed from the large omentum or mesenterium. He underwent laparotomy. A tumor was found in the mesenterium of the ileum approximately 150 cm from the ileocecal valve. The tumor, measuring 75×75×50 nm in size had a solid and gray cut surface. The histological diagnosis was mesenteric fibromatosis. He is alive 1 and a half year after the surgery and has no sign of recurrence.

Key words
mesenteric fibromatosis, mesenteric desmoid

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Ei Sekoguchi Department of Surgery, Meijo Hospital
1-3-1 Sannomaru, Naka-ku, Nagoya, 460-0001 JAPAN

Accepted
January 14, 1998

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