Right Upper Extremity Idiopathic Primary Lymphedema in a 2-Year-Old Child

Lymphedema of an extremity at birth can be an alarming finding. Our patient presented with difficulty breathing and productive cough and was found to have primary lymphedema of the right upper extremity since birth. Further testing was mostly unremarkable except for imaging that revealed many spleni...

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Autores principales: Medina, Victor J, Khalifa, Mohamed S
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
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Genetics
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8530365/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34703697
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.18169
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description Lymphedema of an extremity at birth can be an alarming finding. Our patient presented with difficulty breathing and productive cough and was found to have primary lymphedema of the right upper extremity since birth. Further testing was mostly unremarkable except for imaging that revealed many splenic lesions.
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spelling pubmed-85303652021-10-25 Right Upper Extremity Idiopathic Primary Lymphedema in a 2-Year-Old Child Medina, Victor J Khalifa, Mohamed S Cureus Genetics Lymphedema of an extremity at birth can be an alarming finding. Our patient presented with difficulty breathing and productive cough and was found to have primary lymphedema of the right upper extremity since birth. Further testing was mostly unremarkable except for imaging that revealed many splenic lesions. Cureus 2021-09-21 /pmc/articles/PMC8530365/ /pubmed/34703697 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.18169 Text en Copyright © 2021, Medina et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Medina, Victor J
Khalifa, Mohamed S
Right Upper Extremity Idiopathic Primary Lymphedema in a 2-Year-Old Child
title Right Upper Extremity Idiopathic Primary Lymphedema in a 2-Year-Old Child
title_full Right Upper Extremity Idiopathic Primary Lymphedema in a 2-Year-Old Child
title_fullStr Right Upper Extremity Idiopathic Primary Lymphedema in a 2-Year-Old Child
title_full_unstemmed Right Upper Extremity Idiopathic Primary Lymphedema in a 2-Year-Old Child
title_short Right Upper Extremity Idiopathic Primary Lymphedema in a 2-Year-Old Child
title_sort right upper extremity idiopathic primary lymphedema in a 2-year-old child
topic Genetics
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8530365/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34703697
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