[Therapeutic effect of modified surgery for cystic lymphangioma].

Abstract

OBJECTIVE:

To discuss the surgical treatments of cystic lymphangioma and their curative effect.

METHOD:

A retrospective review of 12 patients (9 males, 3 females) of cystic lymphangioma was performed, with the age ranged from 1 to 35 (median age was 11). Six patients were born with cervical cyst, three patients had symptoms in childhood, and 3 in adolescence. Ten patients underwent modified operation, that is the extracapsular dissection performed under direct vision after open cystic, from July 1998 to March 2008, a patients who had operative procedure in other hospital with recurrence and a 1 year child received local injection of bleomycin A 5.

RESULT:

Cystic lymphangioma were complete excised in 10 surgical patients, without any complication like nerve injury. One of the two patients who received injection was lost in follow-up, and the other was still in follow-up with the tumor basically eliminated.

CONCLUSION:

Surgery is the primary treatment of cystic lymphangioma. Modified operative method is helpful to complete resection of lymphangioma and the protection of surrounding tissues.

• Authors: Yiming Xu, Minqiang Xie, Xian Liu, Hongzheng Zhang, Tao Wang
• Journal: Lin chuang er bi yan hou tou jing wai ke za zhi = Journal of clinical otorhinolaryngology, head, and neck surgery (Lin Chung Er Bi Yan Hou Tou Jing Wai Ke Za Zhi) Vol. 24 Issue 9 Pg. 400-2 (May 2010) ISSN: 2096-7993 [Print] China
• PMID: 20669648 (Publication Type: English Abstract, Journal Article)

Topics

• Adolescent
• Adult
• Child
• Child, Preschool
• Female
• Head and Neck Neoplasms (surgery)
• Humans
• Infant
• Lymphangioma, Cystic (surgery)
• Male
• Retrospective Studies
• Treatment Outcome
• Young Adult