title: Giant fetal lymphangioma at chest wall and prognosis: case report and literature review.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To report a rare liveborn case with a giant, septated, chest wall lymphangioma that underwent prenatal expectation treatment.
  
  
  METHODS
  A case of giant fetal chest wall cystic lymphangioma was diagnosed prenatally at 19 weeks gestation. Expectation treatment was performed, carefully after prenatal counseling, ruling out other structural abnormalities. At 38 weeks gestation, ultrasound showed a multilocular, subcutaneous cystic mass of 12.3 cm × 9.2 cm × 11.0 cm located on the left chest wall and left upper arm. The tumor was surgically removed 4 days after birth, and no recurrence was observed in the following 18 months.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Our experience suggests that a large, septated fetal lymphangioma may still merit prenatal expectation treatment if there is no evidence for chromosomal and structural abnormality.
authors: Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, West China Second University Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China; Department of Medical Epidemiology & Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
authors: Donghao
authors: D
authors: Lu
authors: Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, West China Second University Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China.
authors: Yuhe
authors: Y
authors: Wang
authors: Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, West China Second University Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China.
authors: Weiyue
authors: W
authors: Zeng
authors: Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, West China Second University Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China. Electronic address: pengbin-a111@163.com.
authors: Bing
authors: B
authors: Peng
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D005315:Fetal Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis*; D005865:Gestational Age; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008202:Lymphangioma / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000196:embryology; D008297:Male; D011247:Pregnancy; D011256:Pregnancy Outcome; D011379:Prognosis; D013899:Thoracic Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000196:embryology; D035441:Thoracic Wall; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D016216:Ultrasonography, Prenatal
keywords: congenital malformations; genetic counseling; lymphangioma; prenatal diagnosis