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Primary Chylous Lymphangiectasia of Female Genitalia

We report a case of a 50-year-old female who presented with multiple thick-walled vesicles involving the labia majora and minora which started developing at the age of 10 year. The vesicles extruded milky white fluid when punctured. Biochemical analysis of the fluid was consistent with chyle. Lympho...

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Autores principales: Balasubramanian, Pradeep, Akila, K, Srinivas, CR, Kamaleshwar, KK
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7059483/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32180600
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijd.IJD_76_19
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author Balasubramanian, Pradeep
Akila, K
Srinivas, CR
Kamaleshwar, KK
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description We report a case of a 50-year-old female who presented with multiple thick-walled vesicles involving the labia majora and minora which started developing at the age of 10 year. The vesicles extruded milky white fluid when punctured. Biochemical analysis of the fluid was consistent with chyle. Lymphoscintigraphy showed reflux of the radioactive tracer into the genitalia, thus confirming the diagnosis of primary chylous lymphangiectasia. The patient was not willing to undergo definitive surgical treatment. We report the case considering the rarity and to depict the usage of biochemical analysis of the vesicular content and lymphoscintigraphy to detect this entity.
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spelling pubmed-70594832020-03-16 Primary Chylous Lymphangiectasia of Female Genitalia Balasubramanian, Pradeep Akila, K Srinivas, CR Kamaleshwar, KK Indian J Dermatol Case Report We report a case of a 50-year-old female who presented with multiple thick-walled vesicles involving the labia majora and minora which started developing at the age of 10 year. The vesicles extruded milky white fluid when punctured. Biochemical analysis of the fluid was consistent with chyle. Lymphoscintigraphy showed reflux of the radioactive tracer into the genitalia, thus confirming the diagnosis of primary chylous lymphangiectasia. The patient was not willing to undergo definitive surgical treatment. We report the case considering the rarity and to depict the usage of biochemical analysis of the vesicular content and lymphoscintigraphy to detect this entity. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2020 /pmc/articles/PMC7059483/ /pubmed/32180600 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijd.IJD_76_19 Text en Copyright: © 2020 Indian Journal of Dermatology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Primary Chylous Lymphangiectasia of Female Genitalia
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title_full_unstemmed Primary Chylous Lymphangiectasia of Female Genitalia
title_short Primary Chylous Lymphangiectasia of Female Genitalia
title_sort primary chylous lymphangiectasia of female genitalia
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7059483/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32180600
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijd.IJD_76_19
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