title: Mesenteric histiocytosis or only an inflammatory infiltration of histiocytes? A case report from a surgical point of view.
abstract: The mesenteric sclerosing processes are very rare tumors. There are only a few cases of mesenteric fibromatosis described in literature. A case of mesenteric histiocytosis or a mesenteric infiltration by histocytes as a reactive inflammatory process is not described in the surgical literature. Because of its clinical and macroscopic similarity to a fibromatosis or a reactive inflammatory process and a lack of articles in the literature on mesenteric histiocytosis we concentrated our research in literature on the mesenteric fibromatosis and its differential diagnosis.
authors.affiliation: Department of general, visceral and thoracic surgery, Klinikum Weiden, Weiden i.d. Obpf, Germany.
authors.forename: Florian
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Höhler
authors.forename: Karl-Heinz
authors.initials: KH
authors.lastname: Dietl
authors.forename: Karel
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Novak
authors.forename: Joachim
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Giedl
authors.forename: Christian
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Paetzel
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005355:Fibrosis / Q000473:pathology; D006644:Histiocytes / Q000473:pathology*; D015614:Histiocytosis / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D007249:Inflammation / Q000473:pathology; D008297:Male; D008643:Mesentery / Q000473:pathology*