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ES Journal of Surgery

ISSN: 2768-0614

Angiolymphangioma at Femoral Neck: How to Diagnosis and Which Surgical Method is better for Children with Femoral Neck Pathological Fracture

  • Case Report

  • Xiangyu Deng, Wenbo Yang, Hang Liang, Zhicai Zhang, and Zengwu Shao
  • Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
  • *Corresponding author: Xiangyu Deng, Wenbo Yang, Hang Liang, Zhicai Zhang, and Zengwu Shao
  • Received: May 28, 2020; Accepted: June 17, 2020; Published: June 18, 2020

Abstract

Hemolymphangioma is a rare vascular developmental error. It comprises malformed venous and lymphatic component in various proportion. To the best of our knowledge, only a few cases have been reported in the literature so far. Here, we report a case of hemolymphangioma which happened in a 13-years-old patient’s femur and also accompanied with a femoral neck fracture. He has undergone X-ray, CT, MRI and two biopsies without a clear diagnosis. Considering the high rate of avascular necrosis of the femoral head after children’s femoral neck fracture, we performed femoral neck tumor resection, artificial bone grafting, internal fixation and iliac bone grafting for this patient and after the surgery, hemolymphangioma was the clear diagnosis. For hemolymphangioma happened in bone is such a rare diseases and the patient had a fracture in femoral neck, diagnosis and therapy were both difficult, we reported this case to help more doctor to recognize hemolymphangioma and choose the best surgery methods.

Keywords

Hemolymphangioma; Bone grafting, X-ray; CT; MRI