CYSTIC HYGROMA IN LEFT SUBMANDIBULAR AREA;REPORT OF A CASE

하악 우각부 및 악하부에 발생한 경부수활액낭종

Cystic hygroma remains a complex entity in terms of its development and management. Most recently, cystic hygroma has been categorized as part of a larger spectrum that include lymphangioma. The majorities of lymhangioma occur in the head and neck as cystic hygromas with the posterior cervical region as the most common site. Cystic hygromas usually present in infancy or early childhood as compressible masses that may rapidly and intermittently enlarge. While they may arise in any anatomic location, hygromas of the head and neck are especially difficult and speech pathology. Since as airway obstruction, feeding difficulties, and speech pathology. Since its original description, there have been many attepmts at treatment modalities : surgical excision remains the treatment of choice. Complete extirpation of these lesions is often impossible, and recurrence rates are accordingly high. This is report of a case bout 5-year-old female patient with cystic hygroma, resulted in facial asymmetry and swallowing difficulty, in left submandibular area. We obtained the successful functional and esthetic results by simple surgical excision of tumor mass. Therefore, we represents the case with literatural reviews.

경부수활액낭종과 임파관종은 선천적으로 임파계가 발육이 정지되거나 방해 받으므로 나타나는 병소로 현재까지도 그 본태가 명확히 밝혀지지 않은 질환이다. 본 증례에서는 좌측 하악 우각부 및 상경부에 동통을 동반한 미만성 종창 및 연하장애로 1991년 7월 20일 본원을 내원한 5세 여아에서 임상 소견 및 방사선 소견을 통해 좌측 하악 우각부 및 상경부에 발생한 경부수활액낭종으로 진단하여 악하부 절개를 통해 $1{\time}6{\time}5cm$의 크기를 다방성 낭종구조를 가진 종물을 외과적으로 적출한 증례에 있어서 술후 현재까지 재발 등의 증상없이 양호한 결과를 얻었기에 문헌고찰과 함께 보고하는 바이다.