Esophageal lymphangioma: a case report and review of literature

BACKGROUND: Lymphangioma of the esophagus is an exceedingly rare benign tumor. Herein, we reported a case of lymphangioma in the thoracic esophagus. CASE PRESENTATION: The patient was a 48-year-old woman who presented to our hospital with a one-month history of dysphagia. Upper endoscopy revealed an...

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Autores principales: Cheng, Yuqing, Zhou, Xiaoli, Xu, Kequn, Huang, Qin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6595566/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31242868
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12876-019-1026-9
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Zhou, Xiaoli
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Huang, Qin
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description BACKGROUND: Lymphangioma of the esophagus is an exceedingly rare benign tumor. Herein, we reported a case of lymphangioma in the thoracic esophagus. CASE PRESENTATION: The patient was a 48-year-old woman who presented to our hospital with a one-month history of dysphagia. Upper endoscopy revealed an esophageal submucosal lesion that was completely removed by endoscopic submucosal dissection. Pathologic examination of the resected specimen secured the diagnosis of lymphangioma. A review of the PUBMED indexed literature in English with the key words of esophagus and lymphangioma was carried out and the results were discussed. CONCLUSION: Esophageal lymphangioma is a rare submucosal tumor and should be included in the differential diagnosis of esophageal submucosal tumors.
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spelling pubmed-65955662019-08-07 Esophageal lymphangioma: a case report and review of literature Cheng, Yuqing Zhou, Xiaoli Xu, Kequn Huang, Qin BMC Gastroenterol Case Report BACKGROUND: Lymphangioma of the esophagus is an exceedingly rare benign tumor. Herein, we reported a case of lymphangioma in the thoracic esophagus. CASE PRESENTATION: The patient was a 48-year-old woman who presented to our hospital with a one-month history of dysphagia. Upper endoscopy revealed an esophageal submucosal lesion that was completely removed by endoscopic submucosal dissection. Pathologic examination of the resected specimen secured the diagnosis of lymphangioma. A review of the PUBMED indexed literature in English with the key words of esophagus and lymphangioma was carried out and the results were discussed. CONCLUSION: Esophageal lymphangioma is a rare submucosal tumor and should be included in the differential diagnosis of esophageal submucosal tumors. BioMed Central 2019-06-26 /pmc/articles/PMC6595566/ /pubmed/31242868 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12876-019-1026-9 Text en © The Author(s). 2019 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Cheng, Yuqing
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Huang, Qin
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title_full Esophageal lymphangioma: a case report and review of literature
title_fullStr Esophageal lymphangioma: a case report and review of literature
title_full_unstemmed Esophageal lymphangioma: a case report and review of literature
title_short Esophageal lymphangioma: a case report and review of literature
title_sort esophageal lymphangioma: a case report and review of literature
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6595566/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31242868
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12876-019-1026-9
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