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Mesenteric panniculitis (MP) is a benign inflammatory condition of unknown etiology that involves the adipose tissue of the proximal mesentery and has received considerable attention over the last two decades. In a recent couple of papers published in volume 94 (2011) of JBR-BTR we successively tried to explore the typical imaging findings and to prospectively study the prevalence and natural course of MP (1,2). The radiological CT diagnosis of MP is classically based on typical if not pathognomonic features clearly described and documented in the literature (1-6). They comprise the presence of a well-defined “mass effect” on neighboring structures (sign 1) constituted by mesenteric fat tissue of inhomogeneous higher attenuation than adjacent retro peritoneal or mesocolonic fat (sign 2) and containing small soft tissue nodules (sign 3). These nodules are typically surrounded by a hypoattenuated fatty “halo sign” (sign 4) and a hyperattenuating pseudocapsule may also surround the all entity (sign 5). The last two signs (4 and 5) are considered inconstant but extremely specific. We first concluded that the prevalence of mesenteric panniculitis was much higher than previously reported ranging from 3, 42% to 7, 83% of patients – following the number of CT signs (3 or 5) considered as efficient to achieve the diagnosis – in which an abdominal CT was performed for various reasons or symptoms (2). This high prevalence could probably explain the spontaneous association with the numerous and probably unrelated clinical situations One of our most important but still controversial conclusions was that the value of MP in term of predictivity of an associated neo plasm was probably not relevant. Indeed except a discretely higher prevalence found in patients presenting with bladder and/or prostatic neoplasms and with found in the literature in many single cases reports. In fact we also concluded that the vast majority of cases could be considered as idiopathic, benign an asymptomatic (2). Moreover follow-up CT studies showed a great stability of the CT findings of mesenteric panniculitis in about 85% of cases (2). JBR–BTR, 2015, 98: 100-102.

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A case of symptomatic mesenteric panniculitis presenting with unusual positive FDG PET/CT nodular components: an atypical imaging strategy with histopathologic correlation.