Practica Oto-Rhino-Laryngologica
Online ISSN : 1884-4545
Print ISSN : 0032-6313
ISSN-L : 0032-6313
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A Difficult-to-Diagnose Case of Adult Neck Lymphangioma
Takashi IizukaHidenori YokoiTakuo HaruyamaGen SugitaMasayuki FurukawaTakeshi KusunokiHiroshi YoshikawaKatsuhisa Ikeda
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2009 Volume 102 Issue 12 Pages 1065-1069

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Cervical cystic lymphangioma usually develops in subjects less than two years old, but we report a case in an adults 23-year-old woman reporting cervical swelling continuing for three years had been diagnosed as having a relativery soft cervical tumor. Bloody liquid was aspirated twice from the tumor and we conducted angiography for suspected hemangioma, but no tumor staining was seen. Under a clinical diagnosis of lymphangioma indicated by computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imageing (MRI), and cervical echo graphic findings, the tumor was surgically extirpated. The definitive pathological diagnosis was lymphangioma. No recurrence has been seen 5 years since surgery.

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