Cavernous lymphangioma of the vulva.

摘要

Cavernous lymphangioma also known as cystic lymphangioma, cystic hygroma, or lymphangioma cavernosum is a benign tumor characterized by large dilated lymphatic channels with an attenuated en-dothelial lining which could be in some case surrounded by an irregular discontinuous smooth muscle layer (1). This benign tumor, in the majority of cases described, is either congenital or present in early infancy but is very rare in adulthood (1). Its sites of predilection are the neck and upper trunk (1)- In the vulva, to the best of our knowledge, only three cases have been described before (2-4). We report here two additional cases occurring, respectively, in two young white women who presented a history of a gradually expanding vulvar masses.