Abstract

ZUNIGA FERNANDEZ, Lilian et al. Presentation of a Patient with Mesenteric Cyst. ccm [online]. 2016, vol.20, n.3, pp. 587-595. ISSN 1560-4381.

A 32-year-old male patient with a history of four-year appendectomy. The patient came to the surgical emergency room at “Lucía Iñiguez Landin “Provincial Clinical Surgical Hospital because he started having a diffuse abdominal pain 8 days ago, with light intensity, after a slight physical effort, accompanied by an increase of de abdominal volume specifically on the left hemiabdomen. He has also lost approximately 14 pounds in three months. On the physical examination, a tumoral mass occupying part of the left hypochondriac and left flank was found. Image studies including contrasted abdominal CT-scan were performed. The patient was submitted to an exploratory laparatomy with a preoperative diagnosis of mesenteric tumor in order to remove it and carry out histological studies. The concluding diagnosis was a mesenteric cyst. The patient was treated with antibiotics. The clinical evolution was good.

Keywords : Mesenteric cyst; abdominal tomography; surgery.

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