Sclerosing Mesenteritis, Mesenteric Panniculitis and Mesenteric Lipodystrophy: A Single Entity?
- 1 April 1997
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) in The American Journal of Surgical Pathology
- Vol. 21 (4), 392-398
- https://doi.org/10.1097/00000478-199704000-00004
Abstract
We reviewed 84 cases coded as mesenteric lipodystrophy (ML), mesenteric panniculitis (MP), or retractile mesenteritis and sclerosing mesenteritis (SM), grading fibrosis, inflammation, and fat necrosis, and evaluating clinical subgroups. There was no gender or racial predominance. Patient age range was 23-87 years (average 60). Patients most often presented with abdominal pain or a palpable mass. A history of trauma or surgery was present in four of 84 patients. The most common site of involvement was the small bowel mesentery as a single mass (58 of 84) with an average size of 10 cm, multiple masses (15 of 84), or diffuse mesenteric thickening (11 of 84). All patients had some degree of fibrosis, chronic inflammation, and fat necrosis. Although a few patients showed a sufficient prominence of fibrosis, inflammation, or fat necrosis to permit a separation into SM, MP, or ML, respectively, in most patients these three components were too mixed for a clear separation. The clinical, demographic, and gross features did not help in defining these three entities. Contributors diagnosed 12 as sarcoma. Of 39 patients followed beyond the postoperative period, none died of these lesions. We conclude that SM, MP, and ML appear to represent histologic variants of one clinical entity, and in most cases "sclerosing mesenteritis" is the most appropriate diagnostic term.This publication has 26 references indexed in Scilit:
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