A CASE OF RETROPERITONEAL LYMPHANGIOMA IN AN ADULT MAN

• SAWAI Hirozumi

  Takahama Municipal Hospital

• NAKAMURA Tsukasa

  Takahama Municipal Hospital

• HAYASHI Syusaku

  Takahama Municipal Hospital

• MANABE Tadao

  First Department of Surgery, Nagoya City University Medical School

Bibliographic Information

Other Title

• 成人後腹膜リンパ管腫の1例

Abstract

An adult case of retroperitoneal lymphangioma, that is rare in an adult by a review of the literature, is reported. A 74-year-old man was admitted to the hospital because of an abdominal mass. We suspected it to be retoperitoneal lymphangioma extremely by abdominal ultrasound study, CT scan and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Laparotomy showed a unilocular chylous cyst in the retroperitoneal cavity, and it was extirpated completely. Generally, surgical treatment is choised for this disease at first, but we suggest that the local injection of Bleomycin or OK-432 should be useful if a complete extripation is impossible. So far 123 cases of retroperitoneal lymphangioma have been reported in Japan, and only 13 cases had a of chylous cyst. Furthermore only 10 cases were able to be diagnosed preoperatively by tumor puncture or lympangiography. Recent development of the image diagnosis, especially MRI, would contribute to increase the current diagnostic percentage of this disease.

Journal

• The journal of the Japanese Practical Surgeon Society

  The journal of the Japanese Practical Surgeon Society 56 (10), 2215-2219, 1995

  Japan Surgical Association

Keywords

• MRI

Details

• CRID: 1390001205315037056
• NII Article ID: 130003599441
• NII Article ID: 10008516495
• NII Book ID: AN00198696
• DOI: 10.3919/ringe1963.56.2215
• ISSN: 21892075
• ISSN: 03869776
• Web Site: http://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/ringe1963/56/10/56_10_2215/_pdf
• Web Site: https://search.jamas.or.jp/link/ui/1996099763
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