sclerosing mesenteritis
mesenteric panniculitis

Their findings suggest that sclerosing mesenteritis can be debilitating although relatively benign.

Occasionally tamoxifen is used in treatment of the rare conditions of retroperitoneal fibrosis and idiopathic sclerosing mesenteritis.

Sclerosing mesenteritis may present with no or nearly no signs or symptoms, but many people have chronic and severe pain in the abdomen as the most common chief complaint.

Idiopathic sclerosing mesenteritis (ISM) or mesenteric panniculitus is a rare disease of the small intestine, characterized by chronic inflammation and eventual fibrosis of the mesentery.

The epidemiology of Idiopathic sclerosing mesenteritis disease is extremely rare and has only been diagnosed in about an estimated 300 patients worldwide to date (as of 2014), it is probably under diagnosed.