White mesentery and chylous ascites: an interesting presentation of mesenteric lymphangioma

We present an interesting and unusual case of a 57-year-old woman presenting with symptoms concerning for a bowel obstruction, and diagnostic imaging concerning for an internal hernia. The patient underwent an emergency laparotomy and was found to have chylous ascites throughout the abdomen, and the...

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Autores principales: Chamberlain, Stacey L, Ackermann, Travis, Chan, Yuen, Ghadiri, Marjan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2019
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6882268/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31798825
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jscr/rjz301
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Chan, Yuen
Ghadiri, Marjan
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description We present an interesting and unusual case of a 57-year-old woman presenting with symptoms concerning for a bowel obstruction, and diagnostic imaging concerning for an internal hernia. The patient underwent an emergency laparotomy and was found to have chylous ascites throughout the abdomen, and the extravasation of chyle into the mesentery giving an appearance of a white mesentery. During this case, we will present all of the findings and discuss the unusual underlying pathology.
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spelling pubmed-68822682019-12-03 White mesentery and chylous ascites: an interesting presentation of mesenteric lymphangioma Chamberlain, Stacey L Ackermann, Travis Chan, Yuen Ghadiri, Marjan J Surg Case Rep Case Report We present an interesting and unusual case of a 57-year-old woman presenting with symptoms concerning for a bowel obstruction, and diagnostic imaging concerning for an internal hernia. The patient underwent an emergency laparotomy and was found to have chylous ascites throughout the abdomen, and the extravasation of chyle into the mesentery giving an appearance of a white mesentery. During this case, we will present all of the findings and discuss the unusual underlying pathology. Oxford University Press 2019-12-09 /pmc/articles/PMC6882268/ /pubmed/31798825 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jscr/rjz301 Text en Published by Oxford University Press and JSCR Publishing Ltd. All rights reserved. © The Author(s) 2019. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com
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title_fullStr White mesentery and chylous ascites: an interesting presentation of mesenteric lymphangioma
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title_short White mesentery and chylous ascites: an interesting presentation of mesenteric lymphangioma
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6882268/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jscr/rjz301
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