Unusual location and complication of a cystic lymphangioma: A case report.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

This paper reports an uncommon location and complication of a cystic lymphangioma. Few cases of infected colonic cystic lymphangioma were described in literature. Symptoms are non-specific and setting the diagnosis on radiological features remain challenging. Urgent open surgery is generally required for therapeutic and diagnostic purposes.

Presentation of case

We describe a case of a young man who presented with an acute abdomen mimicking bile peritonitis, infected tumor of the colon or even a complicated hydatid disease of the liver, which is endemic in our country. CT-scan was compulsory to suspect the diagnosis of infected cystic lymphangioma but remained insufficient to rule out other more frequent diagnoses. The patient underwent an emergency open surgery

SUBMITTER: Rebai W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7484498 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature