Surgical treatment of lymphoceles.
Ten patients with lymphoceles after kidney transplantation are reported. Seven were treated with intraperitoneal drainage of the lymphocele, performed through a midline incision laparotomy. The postoperative course was uneventful, symptoms disappeared within 1 week. We consider this as the treatment of choice when lymphoceles develop after renal transplantation.
D001707:Biopsy, Needle; D003560:Cysts / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery*; D004322:Drainage; D006801:Humans; D016030:Kidney Transplantation; D008196:Lymph; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000601:surgery*; D014184:Transplantation, Homologous