[Lymphatic cyst of the mesentery].
Lymphatic cyst of the mesentery is a rare lesion; one case per 100,000 hospital admissions is reported. A case of lymphatic cyst in a sixty-one-year-old woman is presented. The symptoms are extremely variable, not characteristic and correlated to the location and size of the cyst. Abdominal ultrasonography and computed tomography may lead to a correct diagnosis, which is regularly made at the time of abdominal exploration. In this case the cyst was enucleated from the mesentery with open surgery.
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Divisione di Chirurgia Generale, Regione Piemonte, ASL n. 5, Ospedale di Rivoli, Torino.
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D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008210:Lymphocele / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D008643:Mesentery / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D008875:Middle Aged; D010532:Peritoneal Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery