title: Extensive lipomatosis of the small bowel and mesentery: CT and MRI findings.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Yokohama City University Medical Center, 4-57 Urafune-cho, Minami-ku, Yokohama 232-0024, Japan.
authors.forename: Takanobu
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Komagata
authors.forename: Shigeo
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Takebayashi
authors.forename: Kingo
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Hirasawa
authors.forename: Takuma
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Fukawa
authors.forename: Mito
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Arai
mesh_terms: 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