1. A rare case of spontaneous regression of huge neck lymphangioma post primary infection
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Chiun Kian Chai, Ling Xiu Ngui, and Shashi Gopalan
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Spontaneous regression ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Lymphangioma ,business.industry ,Rare entity ,Cystic hygroma ,Acute infection ,medicine.disease ,Asymptomatic ,Surgery ,body regions ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Clinical recurrence ,Rare case ,medicine ,General Materials Science ,medicine.symptom ,Infection ,030223 otorhinolaryngology ,business ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery ,Expectant management - Abstract
Spontaneous regression of lymphangioma is a rare entity. This case report describes a case of huge lymphangioma over the left submandibular region for a twelve-year-old boy, which had clinically regressed completely two months after recovery from an episode of infection with no clinical recurrence two years upon follow-up. Antibiotic treatment and needle aspiration for pressure relief was done during acute infection. In view of possibility of spontaneous regression, expectant management can be considered for cases of asymptomatic lymphangioma.
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- 2016