Giant mesenteric lipoma

Mesenteric lipoma is a rare benign tumor of mature fat cells. Asymptomatic abdominal mass, progressive abdominal distension, and intraperitoneal radio lucent fat density mass on computed tomography are the main diagnostic crit eria. Main differential diagnosis is lipoblastoma or lipoblastomosis. Treat ment is surgical excision. As an unusual case, a 3-year old boy with a gian t mesenteric lipoma is presented in this report. Copyright (C) 1999 by W.B. Saunders Company.