Combined endolymphatic and surgical treatment of a leaking central conducting lymphatic malformation in a neonate

Lymphatic malformations are congenital alterations of normal embryonic lymphatic development. We present a case of a premature 7-week-old male with a large central conducting lymphatic malformation and significant abdominal chylorrhea. He was successfully treated with combined endolymphatic and surg...

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Autores principales: Dionisio, Robert G, Koo, Kevin SH, Tang, Elizabeth RY, Ferguson, Mark R, Monroe, Eric J, Reis, Joseph, Shivaram, Giridhar M, Smith, Caitlin A
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2020
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7677655/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33250948
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.radcr.2020.10.002
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Sumario:Lymphatic malformations are congenital alterations of normal embryonic lymphatic development. We present a case of a premature 7-week-old male with a large central conducting lymphatic malformation and significant abdominal chylorrhea. He was successfully treated with combined endolymphatic and surgical approaches. To the authors’ knowledge, this is the first case to be described.

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