That Grossly Enlarged Abdomen is an Unusual Huge Mesenteric Cyst After all: Case Report and Literature Review
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unusual, mesenteric cyst, huge, AbdomenAbstract
We report a case of a married lady living with her husband for 8 years, who in the past 5 years developed an enlarging abdomen, which neighbors and in-laws thought was pregnancy but later turned out to be a huge mesenteric cyst. Arriving at a diagnosis by clinical methods and available tools with certainty failed and the inability to afford the state of the art diagnostic tools caused the surgeon to revert to exploratory laparotomy.
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