[Mesenteric panniculitis].
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.
Otto
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Innere Abteilung, Städt. Krankenhauses Cäcilien-Hospital Krefeld-Hüls, Bundesrepublik Deutschland.
Wedekind
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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
D011241:Prednisone
Panniculitis mesenterialis.