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[Therapeutic effect of modified surgery for cystic lymphangioma]
Yiming Xu1, Minqiang Xie, Xian Liu
1Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, the Third Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, 510630, China.
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.
