Childhood retroperitoneal lymphangioma presenting following minor trauma

Injury

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 380-383

  Freud, E ^a,b   Farkash, U ^a,b   Cassella, R ^c   Freire, C ^c   Zer, M ^a,b  

^a SCHNEIDER CHILDREN S MEDICAL CENTER OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c HOSPITAL DE NIÑOS RICARDO GUTIÉRREZ   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CASE REPORT; HUMAN; INJURY; INTRAVENOUS PYELOGRAPHY; LAPAROTOMY; LYMPHANGIOMA; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHOCK;

EID: 0032985829     PISSN: 00201383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0020-1383(99)00099-6     Document Type: Article

References (18)

1. Koshy A, Tandon RK, Kapur BML, et al. Retroperitoneal lymphangioma. Am J Gastroenterol 1978;69:485-90.
2. Leonidas JC, Brill WB, Bhan I, et al. Cystic retroperitoneal lymphangioma in infants and children. Radiology 1978;127:203-8.
3. Skandalakis JE, Gray SW, Ricketts RR. The lymphatic system. In: Skandalakis JE, Gray SW, editors. Embryology for Surgeons. Baltimore, Hong Kong, London, Sydney: Williams and Wilkins, 1994. p. 877-97.
4. Pick JW, Anson BJ, Burnett HW. Communications between lymphatic and venous systems at renal level in man. Q Bull Northwest Univ Med School 1944;18:307-16.
5. Pressman JJ, Simon MB. Experimental evidence of direct communications between lymph nodes and veins. Surg Gynecol Obstet 1961;113:537-41.
6. Roddenberry H, Allen L. Observations on the abdominal lymphaticovenous communications of the squirrel monkey (Saimiri sciureus). Anat Rec 1967;159:147-58.
7. Flanagan BP, Helwig EB. Cutaneous lymphangioma. Arch Dermatol 1977;113:24-30.
8. Asch MJ, Cohen AH, Moore TC. Hepatic and splenic lymphangiomatosis with skeletal involvement: report of a case and review of the literature. Surgery 1974;76:334-9.
9. Larson DL, Myhre BA, Scmidt ER. Lymphangiomatosis in unusual sites: spleen, mesentery, retroperitoneum, mediastinum and greater omentum. Wisc Med J 1931;60:279-87.
10. Moore TC. Congenital cysts of the mesentery. Ann Surg 1957; 145:128-31.
11. Burnett WE, Rosemond GP, Bucher RM. Mesenteric cysts: report of 3 cases, in one of which a calcified cysts was present. Arch Surg 1950;60:699-706.
12. Maury JM. Retroperitoneal cysts of wolffian origin. Surg Gynecol Obstet 1918;26:663.
13. Rekhi BM, Esselstyn Jr BC, Levy I. Retroperitoneal cystic lymphangioma: report of two cases and review of the literature. Clev Clin Q 1972;39:125-8.
14. Hebra A, Brown MF, McGeehin KM, Ross AJ. Mesenteric, omental and retroperitoneal cysts in children: a clinical study of 22 cases. South Med J 1993;86:173-6.
15. Vanek VW, Philips AK. Retroperitoneal, mesenteric and omental cysts. Arch Surg 1984;119:838-42.
16. Davidson AJ, Hartman DS. Lymphangioma of the retroperitoneum: CT and sonographic characteristics. Radiology 1990;175:507-10.
17. Feldberg MA, Hendriks AV, Van Leeuwen MS, et al. Retroperitoneal cystic lymphangioma section imaging in two cases and review of the literature. Clin Imaging 1990;14:26-30.
18. Irvine AD, Sweeney L, Corbett JR. Lymphangioma circumscriptum associated with paravesical cystic retroperitoneal lymphangioma. Br J Dermatol 1996;134:1135-7.