TY - JOUR
T1 - A pitfall in diagnosing fetal abdominal lymphangioma
T2 - A report of two cases
AU - Niwa, Yuri
AU - Imai, Kenji
AU - Kotani, Tomomi
AU - Nakano, Tomoko
AU - Ushida, Takafumi
AU - Moriyama, Yoshinori
AU - Kikkawa, Fumitaka
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
PY - 2019/10/1
Y1 - 2019/10/1
N2 - Typical ultrasound findings of fetal abdominal lymphangioma include thick-walled, multiseptated anechoic masses. Although a majority of cases can be suspected promptly by ultrasound examination, the two cases presented herein did not meet the standard criteria and were misleading. Both cases involved unilocular cysts without clear septations, but in retrospect were atypical findings of fetal abdominal lymphangioma. A few reports of misleading cases have been described previously; however, the precise characteristics have not been reported in detail. Therefore, in this case report, we focused predominantly upon the difficulties encountered in the prenatal diagnosis of abdominal lymphangioma based on ultrasound morphology alone.
AB - Typical ultrasound findings of fetal abdominal lymphangioma include thick-walled, multiseptated anechoic masses. Although a majority of cases can be suspected promptly by ultrasound examination, the two cases presented herein did not meet the standard criteria and were misleading. Both cases involved unilocular cysts without clear septations, but in retrospect were atypical findings of fetal abdominal lymphangioma. A few reports of misleading cases have been described previously; however, the precise characteristics have not been reported in detail. Therefore, in this case report, we focused predominantly upon the difficulties encountered in the prenatal diagnosis of abdominal lymphangioma based on ultrasound morphology alone.
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U2 - 10.1002/jcu.22756
DO - 10.1002/jcu.22756
M3 - Article
C2 - 31287158
AN - SCOPUS:85068663421
SN - 0091-2751
VL - 47
SP - 494
EP - 496
JO - Journal of Clinical Ultrasound
JF - Journal of Clinical Ultrasound
IS - 8
ER -