title: Sporadic intra-abdominal desmoid with acute abdomen.
abstract: We report a 72-year-old man with sporadic intra-abdominal desmoid tumor manifesting as acute abdomen. CT scan revealed an air-containing tumor 7 cm in diameter; three weeks later, the tumor had shrunk to 4 cm on antibiotics. At surgery, a tumor arising from the transverse colon mesentery and infiltrating the jejunum was resected. No recurrence occurred over a 1-year follow-up.
authors.affiliation: Third Department of Internal Medicine, Osaka City University Medical School, Osaka, Japan.
authors.forename: Shuhei
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Nishiguchi
authors.forename: Daiki
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Habu
authors.forename: Susumu
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Shiomi
authors.forename: Al
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Montani
authors.forename: Shinji
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Nakatani
authors.forename: Tadashi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Takeda
authors.forename: Shuichi
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Seki
authors.forename: Tetsuo
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Arakawa
authors.forename: Yumiko
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Matsumura
authors.forename: Yoshito
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Yamashita
authors.forename: Kosei
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Hirakawa
authors.forename: Masayuki
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ogami
authors.forename: Norifumi
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Nishida
authors.forename: Hitoshi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Asai
authors.forename: Yasuo
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Suga
mesh_terms: D000006:Abdomen, Acute / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology* / Q000601:surgery; D000008:Abdominal Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery; D000368:Aged; D018222:Desmoid Tumors / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed