A Case of Malignant Lymphoma of the Mesentery

Hideaki Yoshida, Hiroshi Edasawa, Kuniaki Yanoh, Tsuyoshi Kamada, Hiroyuki Katoh¹⁾ and Nobuo Kondo²⁾

Dept. of Surgery, Hakodate Red Cross Hospital The Surgical Oncology, Division of Cancer Medicine, Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine¹⁾ Laboratory for Diagnostic and Surgical Pathology, Sapporo²⁾

A 42-year-old man who had first noticed a tumor around the navel three years earlier was admitted because the tumor had grown larger. Abdominal X-ray CT scanograms revealed a large iso-density tumor 15 cm×10 cm in size on the abdominal aorta. It was also visualized as an area of significant RI uptake on a Ga⁶⁷ scintigram. We suspected a malignant lyphoma of the mesentery and performed open laparotomy to obtain a tissue specimen. The diagnosis was B-cell type follicular lymphoma (small cleaved cell type). Chemotherapy with ten cycles of CHOP was given, and the patient is still doing well two years later.

Key words
malignant lymphoma of mesenterium, CHOP

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Hideaki Yoshida Surgical Oncology, Division of Cancer Medicine, Hokkaido University graduate School of Medicine N-15, W-7, Kita-ku, Sapporo, 060-8638 JAPAN

Accepted
September 20, 2000

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