Congenital Orbital Lymphangioma in a 20-Years Old Girl A Case Report and Review of Literature

We report a case of a 20-year-old girl who presented to the out-patients’ department with congenital, progressive unilateral proptosis and reduced vision. Ultrasound, computed tomography (CT) scan and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) were performed. Diagnosis of orbital lymphangioma was made on imag...

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Autores principales: Mishra, A, Abuhajar, R, Alsawidi, K, AlAoud, M, Ehtuish, EF
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: CoAction Publishing 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3066740/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21483541
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description We report a case of a 20-year-old girl who presented to the out-patients’ department with congenital, progressive unilateral proptosis and reduced vision. Ultrasound, computed tomography (CT) scan and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) were performed. Diagnosis of orbital lymphangioma was made on imaging. Authors highlight the crucial role of imaging in diagnosis and to plan therapeutic approach. This case is reported because of its extreme rarity and unusual presentation.
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spelling pubmed-30667402011-04-11 Congenital Orbital Lymphangioma in a 20-Years Old Girl A Case Report and Review of Literature Mishra, A Abuhajar, R Alsawidi, K AlAoud, M Ehtuish, EF Libyan J Med Case Report We report a case of a 20-year-old girl who presented to the out-patients’ department with congenital, progressive unilateral proptosis and reduced vision. Ultrasound, computed tomography (CT) scan and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) were performed. Diagnosis of orbital lymphangioma was made on imaging. Authors highlight the crucial role of imaging in diagnosis and to plan therapeutic approach. This case is reported because of its extreme rarity and unusual presentation. CoAction Publishing 2009-12-01 /pmc/articles/PMC3066740/ /pubmed/21483541 Text en http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported License, permitting all non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Congenital Orbital Lymphangioma in a 20-Years Old Girl A Case Report and Review of Literature
title Congenital Orbital Lymphangioma in a 20-Years Old Girl A Case Report and Review of Literature
title_full Congenital Orbital Lymphangioma in a 20-Years Old Girl A Case Report and Review of Literature
title_fullStr Congenital Orbital Lymphangioma in a 20-Years Old Girl A Case Report and Review of Literature
title_full_unstemmed Congenital Orbital Lymphangioma in a 20-Years Old Girl A Case Report and Review of Literature
title_short Congenital Orbital Lymphangioma in a 20-Years Old Girl A Case Report and Review of Literature
title_sort congenital orbital lymphangioma in a 20-years old girl a case report and review of literature
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3066740/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21483541
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