Propranolol Alleviating the Challenging Clinical Course of Birth Onset Generalized Lymphangiomatosis. A Case Report

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Abbas Shebli Afaf Michel Minari Ahmad El Haj Sleimen Fayez Abou Jaoude Gregory Nicolas Jad J Terro Marwan Zeidan Mayssaloun Khairallah Mohamad Hashem

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Gregory Nicolas
Division of Surgery, Lebanese American university Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon

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Background: Cystic hygromas, interchangeably named Lymphangiomas, are rare, congenital, benign lesions due to an abnormal lymphatic system development that tend to occur mostly in the head, neck, and oral cavity Case Presentation: This is a case of 18 year old male patient Syrian, smoker, with a history of multiple cystic hygromas since birth along with a generous surgical history of multiple laparotomies for intrabadominal cystic excisions, splenectomy herniorrhaphies (bilateral inguinal hernias and 2 incisional hernias due to laparotomies) left orchieopexy then testiculectomy, scrotal skin graft , multiple abdominal radioguided cystic drainage and sclerotherapy; presented to our care center for fever, dry cough, pleuretic chest pain, and mild abdominal pain with watery diarrhea. Conclusion: Cystic Hygroma is still being considered as a rare entity and can virtually occur in the whole body sites mostly at head and neck regions as explained above. Challenges in this disease is by finding cases where the presence of such cystic lesions is in extremely rare and unusual sites as well as different treatment modalities and prognostics depending on the site and size of the detected cystic formations.

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Case Report

Publication history

Received: Mon 02, Sep 2019
Accepted: Fri 27, Sep 2019
Published: Fri 04, Oct 2019

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© 2023 Gregory Nicolas. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Hosting by Science Repository.
DOI: 10.31487/j.SCR.2019.05.04