Thoracic lymphangioma

Fabrice Cuillier MD Lemaire, MD

Department of Gynecology, Félix Guyon Hospital, 97400 Saint-Denis, Réunion Island, France.

This is a cystic lymphangioma of thymic origin:

Fetal ultrasound at 32 weeks revealing a large cyst occupying the top of the upper left hemithorax.

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Transverse sonogram of the thorax at 32 weeks, showing the heart and a cyst behind it.

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Left parasagittal sonogram of the thorax and the abdomen at 32 weels. The cyst is at the top of the left hemi-thorax and the stomach in its normal place.

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Transverse sonogram at 32 weeks at the top of the thorax.

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Transverse sonogram at 32 weeks revealing a normal four-chamber heart.

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Left parasagittal sonogram of the thorax at 32 weeks. The aorta exit just above the cyst.

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Transverse sonogram at the top of the thorax at 37 weeks. We can see a cyst on the left.

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Coronal and axial scan prenatal MRI showing a posterior left thoracic mass The right lung seems normal and the stomach is on his normal place.

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Baby two days after birth without clinic abnormalities.

 

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