Unusual Presentation of Giant Omental Cystic Lymphangioma Mimicking Hemorrhagic Ascites in a Child.

Abstract

JP ratory tests were normal. Abdominal ultrasound showed a large amount of ascites. mature lymphocytes. Magnetic resonance imaging revealed clumped bowel loops overlying the spine and the complete absence of ascites between bowel loops and around the liver. Bowel loops were displaced by intraperitoneal, multiloculated, septated T1and T2-hyperintense soft tissue corresponding to venous blood (Fig. 1). Laparotomy revealed a giant cystic lymphangioma of the greater omentum (Fig. 2). The patient is doing well 24 months after surgery with no signs of recurrence.