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Sclerosing Mesenteritis: An Unusual Cause of Abdominal Pain

Meir Mouallem, Zehavit Turok, Danny Rosin, Bruria Shalmon

Depts. of Medicine E, General Surgery and Transplantation, and of Pathology, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer and Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University

Sclerosing mesenteritis (SM) is rare and fewer than 300 cases had been reported up to 1997. We describe a 29-year-old woman who had abdominal pain for 1 year and presented with a palpable abdominal mass. The diagnosis of SM was made only after diagnostic laparoscopy and biopsy of the peritoneum.