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Abdominal lymphangioma is usually diagnosed within the first 2 years of life and is extremely rare in adults. The most common location of abdominal lymphangioma is the mesentery, but there are sporadic reports of its development in the gallbladder. A 66-year-old woman was found to have a cystic lesion near the gallbladder. Preoperative studies, including endoscopic ultrasonography, computed tomography, and magnetic resonance imaging, showed a tumor with multilocular cystic structure, originating in the gallbladder fossa. The patient underwent exploratory laparotomy, and the mass was resected en bloc with the gallbladder, as there was no evidence of malignancy on intraoperative ultrasonography. Macroscopically, the tumor was a multilocular cystic mass, 6 × 3 × 2 cm in size, with a rough, sponge-like appearance. Histologically, the cystic tumor was diagnosed as a lymphangioma, originating in the gallbladder. To our knowledge, only three other cases of a cystic lymphangioma originating in the gallbladder have been reported in the medical literature of the world.
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Shikano, T., Takeda, S., Sakai, M. et al. Cystic Lymphangioma of the Gallbladder: Report of a Case. Surg Today 38, 81–84 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00595-007-3564-y
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