title: [Mesenteric panniculitis].
abstract: In a 76 year old patient computed tomography of the abdomen and laparoscopic biopsy revealed a mesenteric panniculitis as cause of recurrent fever and shaking chills. The fever resolved under corticosteroid therapy and the patient remains well three month after onset of treatment.
authors.affiliation: Innere Abteilung, Städt. Krankenhauses Cäcilien-Hospital Krefeld-Hüls, Bundesrepublik Deutschland.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Otto
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Wedekind
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001706:Biopsy; D005335:Fever of Unknown Origin / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D010535:Laparoscopy; D008297:Male; D015436:Panniculitis, Peritoneal / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000473:pathology; D011241:Prednisone / Q000627:therapeutic use; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed
chemical_list: D011241:Prednisone
vernacular_title: Panniculitis mesenterialis.