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Diagnosis of mesenteric panniculitis in the multi-detector computed tomography era

Association with malignancy and surgical history

Waleed S. Mahafza, Karam A. Manzalawi, Azza A. Gharaibeh, Omar W. Khayat, Awni D. Shahait and Malik E. Juweid
Saudi Medical Journal October 2017, 38 (10) 1013-1018; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2017.10.20163

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    Multi-detector CT images of mesenteric panniculitis (MP) in A) axial, B) coronal, and C) sagittal reformations offer an overview of MP in a 72-year-old male patient with metastatic colon cancer and show the space occupying effect of MP on adjacent structures without evidence of infiltration (arrows).

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    Contrast-enhanced abdominal CT for a 64-year-old female with abdominal pain showing mesenteric vessels and nodes encased by mesenteric panniculitis and surrounded by a low attenuation fatty halo, the so called fatty ring sign (arrows).

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    Contrast-enhanced abdominal CT for 58-year-old female with a history of breast cancer showing a hyperattenuating stripe (pseudo-capsule) delineating the outline of mesenteric panniculitis (arrows).

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