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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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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 |
author_facet | 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. |
spellingShingle | Case Report Balasubramanian, Pradeep Akila, K Srinivas, CR Kamaleshwar, KK Primary Chylous Lymphangiectasia of Female Genitalia |
title | Primary Chylous Lymphangiectasia of Female Genitalia |
title_full | Primary Chylous Lymphangiectasia of Female Genitalia |
title_fullStr | Primary Chylous Lymphangiectasia of Female Genitalia |
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 |
topic | Case Report |
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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