Sporadic intra-abdominal desmoid with acute abdomen.
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.
Nishiguchi
Shuhei
S
Third Department of Internal Medicine, Osaka City University Medical School, Osaka, Japan.
Habu
Daiki
D
Shiomi
Susumu
S
Montani
Al
A
Nakatani
Shinji
S
Takeda
Tadashi
T
Seki
Shuichi
S
Arakawa
Tetsuo
T
Matsumura
Yumiko
Y
Yamashita
Yoshito
Y
Hirakawa
Kosei
K
Ogami
Masayuki
M
Nishida
Norifumi
N
Asai
Hitoshi
H
Suga
Yasuo
Y
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