The Desmoid Tumor Research Foundation

November 2014

Mesenteric fibromatosis (desmoid tumour) – a rare case report.

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Hemanth Sureshwara Ghalige,M Birkumar Sharma,Mukut D,Santhosh R,Th Sudhir Chandra Singh

Junior Resident, Department of Surgery, RIMS , Imphal, India .,Professor, Department of Surgery, RIMS , Imphal, India .,Senior Resident, Department of Surgical Gastro-enterology, Jagjivan Ram Railway Hospital , Mumbai, India .,Senior Resident, Department of Urology, NEIGRIHMS , Meghalaya, India .

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Summary

Mesenteric Fibromatosis (MF) is a proliferative fibroblastic lesion of small intestinal mesentery. It constitutes 8% of all desmoid tumours, which represent 0.03% of all neoplasm. It is histologically benign but may invade locally and recur after excision. It occurs sporadically or in association with Familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP) mutation as a component of Gardner's syndrome. The presenting features of MF are asymptomatic abdominal mass, abdominal discomfort or pain, bowel or ureteral obstruction, intestinal perforation, fistula, functional impairment of ileoanal anastomosis following colectomy in FAP cases.

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