title: [Therapeutic effect of modified surgery for cystic lymphangioma].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To discuss the surgical treatments of cystic lymphangioma and their curative effect.
  
  
  METHODS
  A retrospective review of 12 patients (9 males, 3 females) of cystic lymphangioma was performed, with the age ranged from 1 to 35 (median age was 11). Six patients were born with cervical cyst, three patients had symptoms in childhood, and 3 in adolescence. Ten patients underwent modified operation, that is the extracapsular dissection performed under direct vision after open cystic, from July 1998 to March 2008, a patients who had operative procedure in other hospital with recurrence and a 1 year child received local injection of bleomycin A 5.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Cystic lymphangioma were complete excised in 10 surgical patients, without any complication like nerve injury. One of the two patients who received injection was lost in follow-up, and the other was still in follow-up with the tumor basically eliminated.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Surgery is the primary treatment of cystic lymphangioma. Modified operative method is helpful to complete resection of lymphangioma and the protection of surrounding tissues.
authors.affiliation: Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, the Third Affiliated Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, 510630, China.
authors.forename: Yiming
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Xu
authors.forename: Minqiang
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Xie
authors.forename: Xian
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.forename: Hongzheng
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.forename: Tao
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Wang
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006258:Head and Neck Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D018191:Lymphangioma, Cystic / Q000601:surgery*; D008297:Male; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D055815:Young Adult