Takeuchi Kyousuke, Takaya Yukiko, Maeda Kosaku, Maruo Takeshi
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, 7-5-1 Kusunoki-cho, Chuo-ku, Kobe 650-0017, Japan.
J Reprod Med. 2004 Jan;49(1):65-7.
Mesenteric cysts are rare intraabdominal lesions of childhood that may vary in presentation from an asymptomatic mass to an acute abdomen.
We encountered a rare case of peritonitis caused by a ruptured, infected mesenteric cyst of the mesocolon in a female child that had been initially interpreted as a ruptured ovarian cyst.
When confronted with a large unilocular or septated echolucent mass in the lower abdomen in female children, gynecologists should consider a mesenteric cyst in the differential diagnosis.