Cervical Lymphangioma in Adult

Kandakure, Vinod Tukaram; Thakur, Girish; Thote, Amit Ramesh; Kausar, Ayesha

doi:10.5005/jp-journals-10003-1101

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“…The possible theories are developing lymphatic tissue not getting properly anastomosed, lymphatic tissue not getting anastomosed with the veins and arteries, lymphatic tissues getting harvested in wrong places in childhood. 2,5 The y are mostly seen children of age 3-5 years and rarely in adults 6 , with only a fewer than 100 cases reported in English literature. 3 They are divided into 3 types capillary (Microcytic), cavernous (Macrocytic), cystic (Cystic Hygroma).…”

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“…7 In adults they would be silently present from childhood but increase in size due factors like upper respiratory tract infection or incidental trauma. 2,3 They can occasionally cause symptoms due to compression on organs in rare sites 5 . These swellings may aggressively infiltrate nearby tissues or spontaneously regress in size (15% of cases).…”

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“…Main complications would be haemorrhage, infection and rupture. 5 They are generally associated with trisomies of 13, 18, 21, turners syndrome, Noonan syndrome. 2 Ultrasound, CT, MRI can be done for the cases, ultrasound shows the nature of the lesion, CT and MRI would show the relation of lesion to the nearby structures, whereas MRI would be more sensitive.…”

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“…Postoperative complications generally would be infection, haemorrhage, hematoma formation, seroma and injury to the neuro-vascular bundle. The lymphatics nearby to the thoracic duct are to be individually ligated 5 and cut so as to decrease the post op seroma collection rates. We had experienced no complications in this case.…”

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Cervical Lymphangioma in Adult- A Case Report

Balineni¹,

Merlin²,

Pathivada³

et al. 2019

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A 28-years-old female patient presented with complaints of swelling on the left side of neck of 2 months duration. The swelling was insidious in onset and progressive in nature. There was no history of fever, trauma or discharge from swelling. Clinical examination revealed a swelling that was soft, cystic, compressible, non-tender, and mobile. Transillumination test was positive (Fig. 1). On MRI, it showed a cystic swelling with no connection with any major vessels or the thoracic duct (Fig. 2). Patient was taken up for complete surgical excision. Intra operatively a turbid swelling with a thin wall was seen with a feeding vessel from the transverse cervical artery which was ligated and cut (Fig. 3, 4). Post operatively patient had no complications of seroma formation, haemorrhage or haematoma. Post-operative biopsy showed single layer of endothelium lined by flat fibrocollagenous wall suggestive of lymphangioma.

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Cervical Lymphangioma in Adult- A Case Report

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Merlin²,

Pathivada³

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“…Most lymphangiomas are congenital, but later presentations may occur from infections, neoplasm, trauma and iatrogenic injuries in an adult. 2 First case of lymphatic malformation was described by Redenbacher in 1828. 3 Imaging techniques aid in the precise mapping of the lesion and in defining its boundaries with the surrounding vital structures.…”

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