Laparoscopic-assisted excision of a huge polycystic omental lymphangioma in a 3 year old patient presenting with acute abdomen: case report and review

Lymphangioma is a rare benign neoplasm affecting mainly children. In this report we present a complicated case of polycystic omental lymphangioma in a 3 year old female presenting with acute abdomen. The patient underwent a laparoscopic-assisted excision of the lesion and had an excellent postoperat...

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Autores principales: Tsopozidi, Maria, Kepertis, Chrysostomos, Godosis, Dimitrios, Mouravas, Vasilios, Demiri, Charikleia, Spyridakis, Ioannis
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The African Field Epidemiology Network 2021
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8140682/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34046133
http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2021.38.228.26607
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author Tsopozidi, Maria
Kepertis, Chrysostomos
Godosis, Dimitrios
Mouravas, Vasilios
Demiri, Charikleia
Spyridakis, Ioannis
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description Lymphangioma is a rare benign neoplasm affecting mainly children. In this report we present a complicated case of polycystic omental lymphangioma in a 3 year old female presenting with acute abdomen. The patient underwent a laparoscopic-assisted excision of the lesion and had an excellent postoperative course. We discuss the effectiveness and advantages of this laparoscopic surgical approach in children and elaborate on the current literature.
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spelling pubmed-81406822021-05-26 Laparoscopic-assisted excision of a huge polycystic omental lymphangioma in a 3 year old patient presenting with acute abdomen: case report and review Tsopozidi, Maria Kepertis, Chrysostomos Godosis, Dimitrios Mouravas, Vasilios Demiri, Charikleia Spyridakis, Ioannis Pan Afr Med J Case Report Lymphangioma is a rare benign neoplasm affecting mainly children. In this report we present a complicated case of polycystic omental lymphangioma in a 3 year old female presenting with acute abdomen. The patient underwent a laparoscopic-assisted excision of the lesion and had an excellent postoperative course. We discuss the effectiveness and advantages of this laparoscopic surgical approach in children and elaborate on the current literature. The African Field Epidemiology Network 2021-03-01 /pmc/articles/PMC8140682/ /pubmed/34046133 http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2021.38.228.26607 Text en Copyright: Maria Tsopozidi et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/The Pan African Medical Journal (ISSN: 1937-8688). This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution International 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Case Report
Tsopozidi, Maria
Kepertis, Chrysostomos
Godosis, Dimitrios
Mouravas, Vasilios
Demiri, Charikleia
Spyridakis, Ioannis
Laparoscopic-assisted excision of a huge polycystic omental lymphangioma in a 3 year old patient presenting with acute abdomen: case report and review
title Laparoscopic-assisted excision of a huge polycystic omental lymphangioma in a 3 year old patient presenting with acute abdomen: case report and review
title_full Laparoscopic-assisted excision of a huge polycystic omental lymphangioma in a 3 year old patient presenting with acute abdomen: case report and review
title_fullStr Laparoscopic-assisted excision of a huge polycystic omental lymphangioma in a 3 year old patient presenting with acute abdomen: case report and review
title_full_unstemmed Laparoscopic-assisted excision of a huge polycystic omental lymphangioma in a 3 year old patient presenting with acute abdomen: case report and review
title_short Laparoscopic-assisted excision of a huge polycystic omental lymphangioma in a 3 year old patient presenting with acute abdomen: case report and review
title_sort laparoscopic-assisted excision of a huge polycystic omental lymphangioma in a 3 year old patient presenting with acute abdomen: case report and review
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8140682/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34046133
http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2021.38.228.26607
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