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Protein-losing enteropathy: first manifestation of sclerosing mesenteritis
1Department of Internal Medicine, Krankenhaus Bad Cannstatt, Stuttgart, Germany.
Objective:
To report the case of an unusual form of protein-losing enteropathy.
Patient:
A 54-year-old patient with hypoechoic tumours resembling lipomas in the mesentery.
Interventions:
Following examination by ultrasound and computed tomography, the well-known intestinal and extra-intestinal forms of protein-losing enteropathy were excluded and a diagnostic laparotomy was performed. The whole mesentery was infiltrated by a large unresectable tumour. Histological examination showed that it was a sclerosing mesenteritis.
Main Outcome Measures:
Steroid therapy dramatically improved the protein-losing enteropathy.
Conclusion:
Pathogenically, the enteropathy may be interpreted as the result of disturbed lymphatic drainage caused by the sclerosed mesentery.
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