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Multimodality Diagnosis of Mesenteric Ischemia
Published on: July 21, 2023
Traumatic mesenteric cyst after blunt abdominal trauma
Evangelos Falidas1, Stavros Mathioulakis, Konstantinos Vlachos
11st Department of General Surgery, 417 NIMTS, Veterans Administration Hospital of Athens, 10-12 Monis Petraki, Athens 11521, Greece.
Abstract:
Mesenteric cysts are rare abdominal tumors of unclear histologic origin, usually asymptomatic. Post-traumatic mesenteric cyst usually results as a consequence of a mesenteric lymphangitic rupture or a hematoma followed by absorption and cystic degeneration. The preoperative histological and radiological diagnosis is difficult. We present the case of a 45-year-old male patient with sizable, palpable abdominal tumor, the gradual swelling of which the patient himself combined with the blunt abdominal trauma he acquired from an opponent's knee in a football game 5 months ago.
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