Cauchois Aurélie, Desfourneaux Véronique, Kammerer-Jacquet Solène-Florence, Bouguen Guillaume, Rioux-Leclercq Nathalie, Henno Sébastien
Service d'anatomie pathologique, hôpital Pontchaillou, CHU de Rennes, 2, rue Henri-Le-Guilloux, 35000 Rennes, France.
Service de chirurgie digestive, hôpital Pontchaillou, CHU de Rennes, 2, rue Henri-Le-Guilloux, 35000 Rennes, France.
Ann Pathol. 2016 Dec;36(6):415-419. doi: 10.1016/j.annpat.2016.09.002. Epub 2016 Nov 9.
The idiopathic myointimal hyperplasia of mesenteric veins is a rare pathology, affecting recto-sigmoid and mimicking clinically an inflammatory chronic disease of the bowel. Only about fifteen cases have been reported in the literature. This lesion is characterized by a myointimal thickening of the mesenteric veins, without inflammatory infiltrate of the vascular wall, differentiating it from vasculitis. We present here the case of a 48-year-old man, in whom the diagnosis of ulcerative colitis then digestive vasculitis had first been raised.
