Metastatic malignant pleural mesothelioma masquerading as a case of acute abdomen secondary to small bowel perforation

Metastatic pleural mesothelioma is a rare disease. The present study aimed to report a rare presentation of metastatic malignant mesothelioma (MM). The patient was an elderly man who presented with small bowel (jejunal) perforation secondary to metastatic pleural mesothelioma deposits. This was a rare presentation of a rare disease and the first reported case in the published studies in which MM masqueraded as bowel perforation prior to the primary diagnosis. SIMILAR CASES PUBLISHED: 1

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