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Patologická tekutinová kolekce mezenteria, diferenciální diagnostika mezenteriální cysty - kazuistika

Title in English Pathologic fluid collection of mesentery, differential diagnosis of mesenteric cysts - case report
Authors

CHOVANEC Zdeněk HNÍZDIL Luděk ČAPOV Ivan

Year of publication 2014
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source Rozhledy v chirurgii
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Medicine

Citation
Field Surgery incl. transplantology
Keywords mezenteric cyst
Description A mesenteric cyst is a pathologic fluid collection that very rarely occurs anywhere in the mesentery of the gastrointestinal tract from the duodenum to the rectum. The etiology of mesenteric cysts has not yet been completely understood. It is varied from tumorous, infectious, lymphatic due to embryological, post-traumatic or postoperative origin. Symptoms of illnesses are usually nonspecific, manly cause by intestinal obstruction. Diagnosis is often accidental. Therapy is exclusively surgical. In the following text there will be present a case report of 50year-old patient operated due to mesenteric cyst. Patient was after bilateral nephrectomy for polycystic kidney disease and dispensary for polycystic liver disease. By the CT, there was diagnosed mesenteric cyst size about 14 cm in the right meso and hypo-gastrium. It was necessity to histological verification before the planned renal transplantation.

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