Mesenteric Lymphoid Hamartoma Associated with Chronic Hypoferremia, Anemia, Growth Failure and Hyperglobulinemia

Abstract

A mesenteric lymphoid hamartoma was found in a 16-year-old boy associated with growth arrest, chronic hypochromic anemia and hypergammaglobulinemia. Radioisotope tracer scanning technics revealed the lesion. After removal of the tumor all three findings improved in a short time. No definitive immunologic or infectious cause was elucidated. The finding of a foreign-body granuloma in the tumor was noted, but the etiologic role could not be determined.