1999 Volume 41 Issue 7 Pages 1323-1329
Case 1 was a 79 year-old male with multiple cystic lymphangioma and early-stage cancer in the transverse colon and with advanced cancer and early-stage cancer in the sigmoid colon. Case 2 was a 54 year-old female with cavernous lymphangioma in the ascending colon and with advanced cancer in the transverse colon. Twelve cases with lymphangioma of the colon accompanied with colon cancer have been reported in Japan including our two cases, with a ratio of male to female of 7 : 4 and an average age of 71.3 years. Cavernous lymphangioma was frequently observed. Colon cancer was observed at sites other than prevalent sites and early-stage cancer was also frequently observed. There were no symptoms caused by lymphangioma and the coexistence of colon cancer seemed to be coincidental.
