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Large Mesenteric Cyst Mimicking Tuberculous Ascites

Background. Intraabdominal lesions such as mesenteric cysts are uncommon disorders. Most are discovered incidentally during routine abdominal examinations. Methods. We report a patient with a mesenteric cyst masquerading as tuberculous peritonitis and ascites. Conclusion. Mesenteric cysts generally...

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Autores principales: Dulger, Cumhur, Adali, Ertan, Avcu, Serhat, Kurdoglu, Zehra
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2892693/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20592987
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2010/725050
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author Dulger, Cumhur
Adali, Ertan
Avcu, Serhat
Kurdoglu, Zehra
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Avcu, Serhat
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description Background. Intraabdominal lesions such as mesenteric cysts are uncommon disorders. Most are discovered incidentally during routine abdominal examinations. Methods. We report a patient with a mesenteric cyst masquerading as tuberculous peritonitis and ascites. Conclusion. Mesenteric cysts generally do not show typical clinical findings. They may also present with peritoneal tuberculosis findings such as low albumin gradient ascites with high ascitic adenosine deaminase levels. Surgery is used to remove a wide variety of mesenteric cysts. A correct diagnosis can be made by the combined use of radiographic and sonographic examinations in conjunction with the clinical signs.
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spelling pubmed-28926932010-06-30 Large Mesenteric Cyst Mimicking Tuberculous Ascites Dulger, Cumhur Adali, Ertan Avcu, Serhat Kurdoglu, Zehra Case Rep Med Case Report Background. Intraabdominal lesions such as mesenteric cysts are uncommon disorders. Most are discovered incidentally during routine abdominal examinations. Methods. We report a patient with a mesenteric cyst masquerading as tuberculous peritonitis and ascites. Conclusion. Mesenteric cysts generally do not show typical clinical findings. They may also present with peritoneal tuberculosis findings such as low albumin gradient ascites with high ascitic adenosine deaminase levels. Surgery is used to remove a wide variety of mesenteric cysts. A correct diagnosis can be made by the combined use of radiographic and sonographic examinations in conjunction with the clinical signs. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2010 2010-06-08 /pmc/articles/PMC2892693/ /pubmed/20592987 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2010/725050 Text en Copyright © 2010 Cumhur Dulger et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Dulger, Cumhur
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Kurdoglu, Zehra
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title Large Mesenteric Cyst Mimicking Tuberculous Ascites
title_full Large Mesenteric Cyst Mimicking Tuberculous Ascites
title_fullStr Large Mesenteric Cyst Mimicking Tuberculous Ascites
title_full_unstemmed Large Mesenteric Cyst Mimicking Tuberculous Ascites
title_short Large Mesenteric Cyst Mimicking Tuberculous Ascites
title_sort large mesenteric cyst mimicking tuberculous ascites
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2892693/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20592987
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2010/725050
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