Case Report:Malignant peritoneal mesothelioma presenting with persistent high fever

作     者：Li-ying CHEN Ling-xiu HUANG Jin WANG Yi QIAN Li-zheng FANG 

作者机构：Department of Family Medicine Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital School of Medicine Zhejiang University Hangzhou 310016 China Department of Pathology Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital School of Medicine Zhejiang University Hangzhou 310016 China 

出 版 物：《Journal of Zhejiang University-Science B(Biomedicine & Biotechnology)》 (浙江大学学报（英文版）B辑（生物医学与生物技术）)

年 卷 期：2011年第12卷第5期

页      面：381-384页

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学科分类：1002[医学-临床医学] 100214[医学-肿瘤学] 10[医学] 

主　　题：Malignant peritoneal mesothelioma High fever Metastasis 

摘      要：Malignant peritoneal mesothelioma(MPM) is a rare tumor that develops in the *** this paper,we describe an extremely rare case of MPM metastasizing to the appendix in a 48-year-old female who initially presented with a persistent high *** woman reported a slight lower abdominal discomfort which had been relieved by urination for four *** had lost 5 kg of *** was no nausea,vomiting,diarrhea,ab-dominal pain,or abdominal *** broad spectrum antibiotics were given without relief of *** tomography(CT) scans revealed a thickened omentum majus and diffused multiple omental *** omentec-tomy,appendectomy,and adnexectomy were carried out.A gross pathologic specimen of omentum tissue revealed a firm gray-white *** and immunohistochemical examinations confirmed the diagnosis of appendiceal and bilateral adnexal metastases of an *** results suggest that MPM should be considered in the differential diagnosis of unexplained persistent high *** of such atypical presentations of mesothelioma may help to make a correct diagnosis.