Segmental ileal dilatation in a child.
Segmental ileal dilatation in a child.
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儿童节段性回肠扩张。
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2011
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Cenita J. Sam
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Cenita J. Sam
surgical exploration as there are no pathognomonic symptoms or characteristic imaging findings. Abdominal radiographs are usually non contributory, however may reveal dilated bowel loops with air-fluid levels in the very rare patients with intestinal obstruction which may result from compression of the adjacent bowel by the cyst6 or by mesenteric volvulus. The diagnosis may be suggested by an ultrasound of the abdomen, which may reveal a cystic lesion in relation to the bowel loops, away from the adjacent viscera. A fluid-fluid level has been reported as a characteristic finding of these cysts which results from an upper fluid level due to the chyle, and a lower fluid level due to the heavier lymph.7 CT scan demonstrates the fluid attenuation of the lesion and its relationship with the adjacent viscera. A characteristic chyle-lymph fluid level has also been described.8 However, in the present series, although the ultrasound and the CT scan were able to detect a cystic lesion in the region of the duodeno-jejunal flexure, away from the adjacent viscera, a definitive preoperative diagnosis of chylolymphatic cyst could not be made. Management of these cysts involves their removal which may or may not involve resection of the adjacent bowel. Most cysts can be enucleated (as in the 1st patient); however, in some this is not possible without sacrifice of the blood supply to the adjacent bowel and hence necessitates resection (as in the 2nd patient). Procedures like marsupialization and drainage are associated with high recurrence rates (as was in the 2nd case) and are best avoided.9 Histopathology of the resected specimen reveals either unilocular or multilocular cysts.10 The cysts are usually lined with single layer of endothelium, and may contain lymphoid tissue and foam cells.4,10