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Successful management of a bilateral diaphragmatic lymphangioma

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A 5-year-old boy developed two episodes of massive chylothorax due to a huge bilateral diaphragmatic lymphangioma. Two episodes of chylothorax were well controlled only after parenternal octreotide. The lymphangioma showed more than 90% shrinkage after intralesional sclerotherapy with bleomycin.

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  1. The Department of Pediatric Surgery, Chang-Gung Children’s Hospital, Chang-Gung University, College of Medicine, No. 5, Fu-Hsin St, Kweishan, 333, Taoyuan, Taiwan

    Yung-Ching Ming & Jin-Yao Lai

  2. Department of Pediatrics, Chang-Gung Children’s Hospital, Chang-Gung University, College of Medicine, Taoyuan, Taiwan

    Kin-Sun Wong

  3. Department of Radiology, Chang-Gung Children’s Hospital, Chang-Gung University, College of Medicine, Taoyuan, Taiwan

    Chao-Jan Wang

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Ming, YC., Wong, KS., Wang, CJ. et al. Successful management of a bilateral diaphragmatic lymphangioma. Pediatr Surg Int 23, 591–593 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00383-006-1811-8

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