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Diffuse abdominal lymphangiomatosis is a rare and complex disease. It typically presents with non-specific gastrointestinal symptoms and characteristic cystic lesions or tumoral masses on imaging based on the literature to date. This report presents the rare case of a young man with an atypical form of diffuse abdominal lymphangiomatosis in the complete absence of cystic lesions or lymphangioma tumoral masses, thus presenting a unique diagnostic challenge. It was successively treated by surgery, gastric electrical stimulator, sirolimus, and imatinib.
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Belhasan, D., Ghalim, F. Diffuse abdominal lymphangiomatosis without tumoral masses: a case report. Clin J Gastroenterol (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12328-024-01941-y
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