Go Hasegawa,Hisashi Yokoyama,Hitoshi Nogami,Kazunao Hayashi,Masaaki Takamura,Satoshi Yamagiwa,Shuji Terai,Toshifumi Wakai,Yuichi Sato
Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Niigata University Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Japan.
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Summary
We herein report the case of a rapidly progressive sporadic mesenteric desmoid tumor (DT). A 62-year-old woman presented with a 4-cm-diameter palpable mass in the left supraumbilical area. The mass showed an ill-defined margin with heterogeneous delayed enhancement on computed tomography and heterogeneous high intensity on T2-weighted magnetic resonance imaging. Sixteen months after the initial observation, the mass had grown in size, reaching 13 cm in diameter. The resected mass was histologically confirmed as a DT of the mesentery. Since DT often has an unpredictable clinical course, clinicians should bear in mind the need for imaging follow-up.
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