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Lymphatic-venous malformations are rare congenital defects resulting from the abnormal communication between lymphatic vessels and systemic circulation, integrating the group of combined vascular malformations, with low-flow. They affect both genders equally and present preferably in the head and neck (>90%), rarely in retroperitoneal location. Cli...
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... literature review in PubMed without language restriction, of published data until November 2017, with search terms including Retroperitoneal/Retroperitoneum Hemolymphangioma and Lymphatic-Venous/Lymphovenous Malformation, found five relevant articles, but only four were full-text, with publication dates between 1987 and 2015. They concern four patients, as described in Table 1, two with isolated retroperitoneal compromise [10,11], another with retroperitoneal and splenic [12] and the fourth with retroperitoneal lymphatic-venous malformation extending from the head of pancreas [13], with ages between 12 and 25 years-old. ...
