title: [Lymphatic cyst of the mesentery].
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Divisione di Chirurgia Generale, Regione Piemonte, ASL n. 5, Ospedale di Rivoli, Torino.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Coluccio
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Fusaro
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ponzio
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Ambu
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Tramontano
mesh_terms: 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