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Retractile mesenteritis in a 12-year-old girl: CT findings
1Department of Pediatrics, Sapporo Higashi-Tokushukai Hospital, 3-21, E13, N33, Higashi-ku, Sapporo 065, Japan.
Pediatric Radiology
|April 1, 1997
Abstract:
We report a pathologically proven case of retractile mesenteritis in a 12-year-old girl. Computed tomography (CT) demonstrated a large mass of fat density completely circumscribing the colon. Although the definitive diagnosis of retractile mesenteritis depends on histopathological findings, recognition of CT features is helpful in the diagnosis.