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.
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