Maternal Retroperitoneal Cystic Lymphangioma During Pregnancy
Marta Campos, Marta Xavier, Mónica Melo, Susana Graça, Claudina Carvalho · 2025
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Description
Marta Campos and colleagues report a rare benign tumor found in pregnancy and handled with no major surgery. Retroperitoneal cystic lymphangiomas are rare, and in pregnancy rarer still, by far. Their patient was thirty-one, at thirty-six weeks of pregnancy, and a large retroperitoneal tumor was found by chance on a routine ultrasound.
One week later she gave birth to a healthy newborn by cesarean section. Cut-out surgery, the standard care, was first proposed. But after the birth the lesion shrank on its own, an atypical course. With that change, the team used drainage through the skin, then sclerosis, in place of a cut-out. The team says this is only the second known case of its kind, found in pregnancy and handled with success by a less invasive route than full cut-out. A tumor that is already shrinking may not need the largest operation.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Marta Campos, Marta Xavier, Mónica Melo, Susana Graça, Claudina Carvalho |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 12 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |