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Lymphangioma of the stomach —Report of a case and review of the literature—

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Abstract

A rare case of a 66 year old man with lymphangioma of the stomach is presented herein. Upper gastrointestinal X-ray series revealed a slow growing submucosal tumor in the anterior wall of the antrum of the stomach which was subsequently found to be lymphangioma after a partial gastrectomy. To our knowledge, this is only the thirteenth case of lymphangioma of the stomach to have been reported in the English literature. A brief review of the English and Japanese literature is presented following the case report.

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  1. The Department of Surgery, Shin-Kokura Hospital, 1-3-1 Kanada, Kokura-Kita-ku, 803, Kitakyushu, Japan

    Koji Yamaguchi MD, Shogo Maeda & Katsutoshi Kitamura

  2. The First Department of Surgery, Kyushu University Faculty of Medicine, Fukuoka, Japan

    Koji Yamaguchi MD

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Yamaguchi, K., Maeda, S. & Kitamura, K. Lymphangioma of the stomach —Report of a case and review of the literature—. The Japanese Journal of Surgery 19, 485–488 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02471633

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