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It ranges from being asymptomatic to features of acute abdomen very rarely. Surgery is the treatment of choice. Complete excision with negative margins plays a curative role in avoiding the risk of recurrence as well. Here, we present the case of a 70-year-old woman who came to Hawassa University Comprehensive Specialized Hospital with abdominal swelling for a 5-month duration. She had an abdominal ultrasound, which suggested a calcified mesenteric cyst with internal hemorrhage. The patient was taken to the OR with the impression of an intra-abdominal mass for exploratory laparotomy. The mass was completely excised and was subjected to pathology, which turned out to be a calcified simple mesenteric cyst, and the purpose of this case report is to alert physicians that although the preoperative diagnosis of mesenteric cysts is difficult, it should be considered in the differential diagnosis of a patient presenting with an intra-abdominal mass.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1155\/2022\/8692421","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,11,3]],"date-time":"2022-11-03T03:35:08Z","timestamp":1667446508000},"page":"1-8","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":6,"title":["A Rare Case of Calcified Simple Mesenteric Cyst in a 70-Year-Old Woman"],"prefix":"10.1155","volume":"2022","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-5409-2586","authenticated-orcid":true,"given":"Alazar Berhe","family":"Aregawi","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Surgery, Hawassa University Comprehensive Specialized Hospital, Hawassa University, Hawassa, Ethiopia"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-2055-6949","authenticated-orcid":true,"given":"Alemwosen Teklehaimanot","family":"Alem","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Pathology, Hawassa University Comprehensive Specialized Hospital, Hawassa University, Hawassa, Ethiopia"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"311","reference":[{"key":"1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1007\/s12029-020-00522-9"},{"issue":"1","key":"2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1","DOI":"10.1093\/jscr\/rjz002","article-title":"Giant mesenteric cyst from the small bowel mesentery in a young adult patient","volume":"2019","author":"S. 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