Giant lymphatic cyst of omentum: a case report

BACKGROUND: Omental cysts are rare abdominal lesions and are difficult to diagnose. Mostly they are detected incidentally during imaging studies performed for unrelated reasons. CASE PRESENTATION: Presentation can be both acute and chronic. Acute presentations are usually due to complication in cyst...

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Autores principales: Kumar, Sanjeev, Agrawal, Nikhil, Khanna, Rahul, Khanna, AK
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2628642/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19128491
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-2-23
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author Kumar, Sanjeev
Agrawal, Nikhil
Khanna, Rahul
Khanna, AK
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Agrawal, Nikhil
Khanna, Rahul
Khanna, AK
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description BACKGROUND: Omental cysts are rare abdominal lesions and are difficult to diagnose. Mostly they are detected incidentally during imaging studies performed for unrelated reasons. CASE PRESENTATION: Presentation can be both acute and chronic. Acute presentations are usually due to complication in cyst. Imaging is helpful in excluding other causes of lump abdomen. We encountered a case of giant lymphatic cyst presenting with abdominal swelling, clinically mimicking huge ovarian cyst. CONCLUSION: The goal of surgical therapy is complete excision of the cyst, and Omental cysts can be removed without endangering the adjacent bowel.
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spelling pubmed-26286422009-01-20 Giant lymphatic cyst of omentum: a case report Kumar, Sanjeev Agrawal, Nikhil Khanna, Rahul Khanna, AK Cases J Case Report BACKGROUND: Omental cysts are rare abdominal lesions and are difficult to diagnose. Mostly they are detected incidentally during imaging studies performed for unrelated reasons. CASE PRESENTATION: Presentation can be both acute and chronic. Acute presentations are usually due to complication in cyst. Imaging is helpful in excluding other causes of lump abdomen. We encountered a case of giant lymphatic cyst presenting with abdominal swelling, clinically mimicking huge ovarian cyst. CONCLUSION: The goal of surgical therapy is complete excision of the cyst, and Omental cysts can be removed without endangering the adjacent bowel. BioMed Central 2009-01-07 /pmc/articles/PMC2628642/ /pubmed/19128491 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-2-23 Text en Copyright ©2009 Kumar et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Kumar, Sanjeev
Agrawal, Nikhil
Khanna, Rahul
Khanna, AK
Giant lymphatic cyst of omentum: a case report
title Giant lymphatic cyst of omentum: a case report
title_full Giant lymphatic cyst of omentum: a case report
title_fullStr Giant lymphatic cyst of omentum: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Giant lymphatic cyst of omentum: a case report
title_short Giant lymphatic cyst of omentum: a case report
title_sort giant lymphatic cyst of omentum: a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2628642/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19128491
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-2-23
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