Extensive lipomatosis of the small bowel and mesentery: CT and MRI findings.
We report a patient with extensive lipomatosis involving both the ileum and mesentery. Axial computed tomographic images showed that diffuse and multiple intramural masses of fat densities compressed the ileum interior and abundant mesenteric fat compressed the retroperitoneum. Coronal magnetic resonance images showed thumbprinting of fluid containing ileum caused by fat-intensity masses.
Komagata
Takanobu
T
Department of Radiology, Yokohama City University Medical Center, 4-57 Urafune-cho, Minami-ku, Yokohama 232-0024, Japan.
Takebayashi
Shigeo
S
Hirasawa
Kingo
K
Fukawa
Takuma
T
Arai
Mito
M
D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007421:Intestine, Small; D008068:Lipomatosis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008643:Mesentery; D008875:Middle Aged; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed