Percutaneous drainage and sclerosis of mesenteric cysts: Literature overview and report of an innovative approach

We present the case of a 29-years-old male patient, affected by a voluminous post-traumatic mesenteric cyst, a rare abdominal disease; our patient represents a rarely affected age group.Treatment was based on interventional radiology with an US-guided drainage and sclerosis by ethyl alcohol of the lesion.The intervention performed on this patient represents the application of a standardized radiological technique to a new contest, mesenteric cysts, whose gold-standard treatment is represented in literature by surgery.In our case we obtained an optimal result, with complete regression of the treated cyst: it proved to be an effective, feasible, safe and minimally invasive procedure.