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  • Title: [Peritoneal mesothelioma as a rare case of acute abdomen. Review of the literature].
    Author: Cipollone G, Montini F, Lattanzio G, Errichi BM.
    Journal: Chir Ital; 1994; 46(6):73-9. PubMed ID: 8521546.
    Abstract:
    Peritoneal mesothelioma is a rare neoplasm with generic and non-specific symptoms. In some cases it is associated with various and particular clinical syndromes. These findings make it so insidious that the diagnosis is rarely make the preoperative course. Usually, there has been previous exposure to asbestos, during even if other causes are reported. Rarely, a peritoneal mesothelioma appears with signs and symptoms suggestive of acute abdomen, such as the present case. On admission the patient presented clinical features apparently requiring emergency surgery. In fact, at laparotomy, the tumour, arising from the mesenterium, had perforated the peritoneal cavity and communicated with the digiunal lumen, causing a septic hemoperitoneum. A radical resection was performed and the continuity of the intestinal tract was restored through an end-to-end entero-anastomosis. The patient, with a history of exposure to asbestos, was alive four years later. But over the last twelve months diffuse metastasis has occurred in the lung and liver, and there was no response to systemic chemotherapy. This case may be considered singular of the clinical syndrome, the long-term survival and the circumscribed aspect of the tumour. Through a review of the literature, the features of the present diagnostic procedure are underlined and the importance of multidisciplinary treatment as the best approach to peritoneal mesothelioma is emphasized.
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