Linfangioma cístico do fígado

• Autor(a) principal: Waechter, Fabio Luiz
• Data de Publicação: 2000
• Outros Autores: Sampaio, Jose Artur, Pereira-Lima, Luiz Maraninchi
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFRGS
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10183/143522
• topic: Linfangioma cístico; Hepatopatias; Relatos de casos; Hepatic lymphangioma; Hepatic cyst; Benign tumor of the liver

Hepatic lymphangioma developed from a malformation that blocks the lymphatic system of a given area of the liver is a rare benign tumor observed most often in children and adolescents. The authors report and discuss a case of cystic lymphangioma of the liver in a 65 years old female patient, from a region where hydatid disease is endemic, with a complaint of epigastric pain, nausea, and vomiting. The patient presented a non-pulsatile mass, with severe pain at palpation in the epigastric region. The diagnostic investigation revealed a large cystic lesion in the left lobe of the liver, and she was submitted to bisegmentectomy II and III, which showed a hepaticlymphangioma. Considering the progressive character of this lesion, it should be carefully evaluated, since the removal of the lymphangioma is a safe, cutarive procedure.