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Intrathoracic extramediastinal lymphangioma is a rare entity; only four cases have been described in the literature, of which one was in a child. This report describes a 9-year-old girl with an infected lymphangioma of the right diaphragm who presented with chest pain and fever. The preoperative diagnosis was a Morgagni hernia, but the correct diagnosis was made at operation. The lesion was amenable to resection, which proved to be curative.
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Seo, T., Ito, T., Ishiguro, Y. et al. Lymphangioma of the right diaphragm. Pediatr Surg Int 7, 384–386 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00176601
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