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Papers by P. Lingier
Phlebologie
Cutis Marmorata Phlebectasica is a rare congenital disorder characterized by persistent erythrocy... more Cutis Marmorata Phlebectasica is a rare congenital disorder characterized by persistent erythrocyanotic mottled areas associated with superficial phlebectases with cutaneous atrophy and ulcerations. The anomaly is present at birth. Spontaneous improvement is the rule. Four cases are described with vascular investigations, coloured echo-Doppler and phlebography. The deep venous tracts are shown to be dilated. Reflux is shown to the superficial veins.
Surgical Endoscopy
Adverse economic conditions often prevent the widespread implementation of modern surgical techni... more Adverse economic conditions often prevent the widespread implementation of modern surgical techniques in third world countries such as in Sub-Sahara Africa. To demonstrate that a modern technique (laparoscopic totally extraperitoneal inguinal hernioplasty [TEP]) can safely be performed at significantly lower cost using inexpensive mesh material. Douala University Hospital Gynecology, Obstetrics and Pediatrics and two affiliated centers, Ayos Regional Hospital and Edéa Regional Hospital in Cameroon. Prospective randomized controlled trial (RCT) of consecutive adult patients presenting with primary inguinal hernia treated by TEP, comparing implantation of sterilized mosquito mesh (MM) with conventional polypropylene mesh (CM). Primary endpoints were peroperative, early and midterm postoperative complications and hernia recurrence at 30 months. Sixty-two patients (48 males) were randomized to MM (n = 32) or CM (n = 30). Groups were similar in age distribution and occupational features. Peroperative and early outcomes differed in terms of conversion rate (2/32 MM) due to external (electrical power supply) factors and mesh removal for early obstruction (1/30 CM). No outcome differences, including no recurrences, were noted after a median follow-up of 21 months. In this RCT with medium-term follow-up, TEP performed with MM appears not inferior to CM.
Revue Medicale de Bruxelles
Le Carnet PSY, 2006
Cet article porte sur les ressources tant relationnelles qu’intrapsychiques de l’enfant pour fair... more Cet article porte sur les ressources tant relationnelles qu’intrapsychiques de l’enfant pour faire face a l’hospitalisation suite a une intervention chirurgicale lourde. Les auteurs se basent sur une etude de cas qualitative et retrospective d’enfants en periode de latence. Trois enfants et leurs parents ont participe a un entretien semi-directif comprenant une anamnese familiale et medicale. Le vecu inconscient a ete apprehende par une epreuve projective. Les resultats montrent que les enfants presentent une sensibilite a l’angoisse de separation voire d’abandon et a l’angoisse de castration voire d’aneantissement ou de mort. Ces angoisses de separation semblent venir entraver les mouvements d’autonomisation des enfants. L’ intervention chirurgicale apparait comme l’element anxiogene majeur. Divers elements permettent a l’enfant de depasser l’experience a laquelle il a ete confronte et d’etre “resilient”: ses capacites de mentalisation et de symbolisation, son aptitude a utiliser les ressources relationnelles comme la possibilite de s’appuyer sur le personnel soignant et les possibilites de l’enfant d’occuper une position active, notamment de revendication (toutes ces aptitudes traduisant l’existence d’un lien d’attachement securisant). L’aptitude cruciale dans l’abord de l’experience de l’hospitalisation semble donc etre celle qui permet a l’enfant d’identifier ses etats internes et egalement ceux des autres. Cette aptitude s’assortit de capacites relationnelles.
Revue Medicale de Bruxelles
Journal Belge de Radiologie
Although rare, sacrococcygeal teratoma is the most common congenital tumor. We report a case of a... more Although rare, sacrococcygeal teratoma is the most common congenital tumor. We report a case of a precociously diagnosed and rapidly growing cystic lesion. These tumors may be associated with hemodynamic and hemorrhagic complications. Therefore, affected fetuses should be carefully followed during the entire pregnancy by ultrasound and MR imaging in order to evaluate the evolution of the mass, its consequences on the fetal organs and to appreciate the wellbeing of the fetus. Delivery and post natal work up can therefore be optimized.
Cutis Marmorata Phlebectasia is a rare congenital disorder characterized by persistant erythrocya... more Cutis Marmorata Phlebectasia is a rare congenital disorder characterized by persistant erythrocyanotic mottled areas associated with superficial phlebectases with cutaneous atrophy and ulcerations. The anomaly is present at birth. Spontasneous improvement is the rule. Four cases a described with vascular investigations, coloured echodoppler and phlebography. The deep venous tracts we shown to be dilated. Reflux is shown to the superficial veins
JBR-BTR : organe de la Societe royale belge de radiologie (SRBR) = orgaan van de Koninklijke Belgische Vereniging voor Radiologie, 2009
Background: This 14-year-old boy was examined by his general practitioner because of epigastric p... more Background: This 14-year-old boy was examined by his general practitioner because of epigastric pain, pyrosis and recurrent vomiting. He also reports two episodes of hematemesis and weight loss over the last two months. Clinical examination was unremarkable. Gastroscopy demonstrated esophagitis as well as an ulcerated, polypoid mass in the duodenum, that was biopsied. Histology concluded to an ulcerated benign juvenile polyp and gastritis. A colonoscopy did not reveal polyposis. Symptoms did not improve under anti-acid medication. Furthermore, upper digestive tract obstruction developed.The child was transferred to our institution.
The authors review the biochemical and biological properties of chromogranins and pancreastatin. ... more The authors review the biochemical and biological properties of chromogranins and pancreastatin. Chromogranins A, B and C are acidic proteins of a molecular mass of 48,000, 76,000 and 67,000, respectively, located in the secretory granules of the neuroendocrine cells. Since large amounts of chromogranin A were found in most neuroendocrine tumours, chromogranin A plasma determination is a diagnostic tool even in silent tumours. Pancreastatin is a peptide derived from chromogranin A, which inhibits insulin secretion, exocrine pancreatic secretion and gastric acid secretion, and which stimulates glucagon secretion. Pancreastatin has different molecular forms, the major form being a high molecular form of 92 amino acids, found by the authors in human stomach- and colon extracts and in a liver metastasis of a gastrinoma. The controlled proteolysis of chromogranin A in gut neuroendocrine cells generates predominantly the high molecular weight form.
Phlebologie, 1992
Cutis Marmorata Phlebectasica is a rare congenital disorder characterized by persistent erythrocy... more Cutis Marmorata Phlebectasica is a rare congenital disorder characterized by persistent erythrocyanotic mottled areas associated with superficial phlebectases with cutaneous atrophy and ulcerations. The anomaly is present at birth. Spontaneous improvement is the rule. Four cases are described with vascular investigations, coloured echo-Doppler and phlebography. The deep venous tracts are shown to be dilated. Reflux is shown to the superficial veins.
British Journal of Surgery
Acta gastro-enterologica Belgica
The authors review the biochemical and biological properties of chromogranins and pancreastatin. ... more The authors review the biochemical and biological properties of chromogranins and pancreastatin. Chromogranins A, B and C are acidic proteins of a molecular mass of 48,000, 76,000 and 67,000, respectively, located in the secretory granules of the neuroendocrine cells. Since large amounts of chromogranin A were found in most neuroendocrine tumours, chromogranin A plasma determination is a diagnostic tool even in silent tumours. Pancreastatin is a peptide derived from chromogranin A, which inhibits insulin secretion, exocrine pancreatic secretion and gastric acid secretion, and which stimulates glucagon secretion. Pancreastatin has different molecular forms, the major form being a high molecular form of 92 amino acids, found by the authors in human stomach- and colon extracts and in a liver metastasis of a gastrinoma. The controlled proteolysis of chromogranin A in gut neuroendocrine cells generates predominantly the high molecular weight form.
Peptides, 1994
A radioimmunoassay of human pancreastatin was developed using a rabbit antiserum that selectively... more A radioimmunoassay of human pancreastatin was developed using a rabbit antiserum that selectively recognized the C-terminal amidated end of the peptide, and it was used for the identification of the molecular forms of pancreastatin in human gut (stomach, duodenum, small intestine, colon) and endocrine tumor extracts (liver metastasis of a gastrinoma and a medullary carcinoma of thyroid, one nonsecreting pancreatic tumor, one recurrence of a gut carcinoid, one vipoma and one insulinoma). In all gut extracts, a gel filtration chromatography revealed the presence of three peaks of pancreastatin-like immunoreactivity. The predominant form eluted with an apparent molecular weight higher than that of pancreastatin. This form was also predominant in the endocrine tumors analyzed, except in the insulinoma, where a lower molecular weight form predominated. The high molecular form was further purified from a liver metastasis of a gastrinoma. The pancreastatin-like immunoreactivity eluted in all the chromatographical systems (reverse-phase, ion exchange) as a single peak that was finally purified to homogeneity and sequenced. The sequence of the first 29 N-terminal amino acids was obtained unambiguously and corresponded to the sequence 210-238 of chromogranin A. Considering the selectivity of the assay used for peptide identification, this major form was identified as the fragment 210-301 of chromogranin A. It is likely that the predominant form of pancreastatin in human gut extracts and noninsular tumors is a 92 amino acid peptide.
Journal of ultrasound in medicine: official journal of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine
JBR-BTR: organe de la Société royale belge de radiologie (SRBR) = orgaan van de Koninklijke Belgische Vereniging voor Radiologie (KBVR)
... There are 11 cases report-ed that involve the digestive tract and only 1 case in the duodenum... more ... There are 11 cases report-ed that involve the digestive tract and only 1 case in the duodenum. ... In: Coffin CM, O'Shea PA, Dehner LP, eds. Pediatric soft tissue tumors: a clinical patho-logical, and therapeutic approach, 1st ed. Baltimore: Williams & Wilkins, 1997: 295-310.
JBR-BTR : organe de la Société royale belge de radiologie (SRBR) = orgaan van de Koninklijke Belgische Vereniging voor Radiologie (KBVR)
Although rare, sacrococcygeal teratoma is the most common congenital tumor. We report a case of a... more Although rare, sacrococcygeal teratoma is the most common congenital tumor. We report a case of a precociously diagnosed and rapidly growing cystic lesion. These tumors may be associated with hemodynamic and hemorrhagic complications. Therefore, affected fetuses should be carefully followed during the entire pregnancy by ultrasound and MR imaging in order to evaluate the evolution of the mass, its consequences on the fetal organs and to appreciate the wellbeing of the fetus. Delivery and post natal work up can therefore be optimized.
JBR-BTR : organe de la Société royale belge de radiologie (SRBR) = orgaan van de Koninklijke Belgische Vereniging voor Radiologie (KBVR)
... There are 11 cases report-ed that involve the digestive tract and only 1 case in the duodenum... more ... There are 11 cases report-ed that involve the digestive tract and only 1 case in the duodenum. ... In: Coffin CM, O'Shea PA, Dehner LP, eds. Pediatric soft tissue tumors: a clinical patho-logical, and therapeutic approach, 1st ed. Baltimore: Williams & Wilkins, 1997: 295-310.
Acta chirurgica Belgica
We report a case of foetal urinary bladder rupture due to posterior urethral valves. A megacystis... more We report a case of foetal urinary bladder rupture due to posterior urethral valves. A megacystis was diagnosed in a male foetus during routine second trimester ultrasound examination. The diagnosis of bladder rupture was made as, one week later, the bladder became undetectable with the appearance of ascites. During the follow-up, no oligohydramnios developed and intercurrent ascites resolved spontaneously. There are three described mechanisms releasing bladder hyperpressure: bladder diverticles, unilateral vesicoureteral reflux and bladder rupture. In this case, another mechanism might be involved: a patent urachus. The urethral valves were resected and no other surgical treatment was needed. The renal function remained normal. No long-term vesical follow-up of this pathology is available in the literature.
European journal of pediatric surgery : official journal of Austrian Association of Pediatric Surgery ... [et al] = Zeitschrift für Kinderchirurgie, 2007
We report the case of a newborn presenting with a pediculated mass arising from the anal margin. ... more We report the case of a newborn presenting with a pediculated mass arising from the anal margin. Antenatal sonogram and magnetic resonance imaging were unable to diagnose the precise nature of the lesion. Sacrococcygeal teratoma, an enterogenous cyst, a polyp, a prolapse or other perineal tumors were all proposed as possible entities. At birth, no other anatomic anomaly than this homogenous 2 cm para-anal lesion was seen. Excision of the mass was performed under general anesthesia. The postoperative histological exam showed mature fat cells. Reviewing the literature, there have been few previously reported cases of congenital perineal lipoma. It is a rare, benign and easy-to-treat condition that can be evocated by morphological sonography or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).
Journal of ultrasound in medicine : official journal of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine, 1998
Phlebologie
Cutis Marmorata Phlebectasica is a rare congenital disorder characterized by persistent erythrocy... more Cutis Marmorata Phlebectasica is a rare congenital disorder characterized by persistent erythrocyanotic mottled areas associated with superficial phlebectases with cutaneous atrophy and ulcerations. The anomaly is present at birth. Spontaneous improvement is the rule. Four cases are described with vascular investigations, coloured echo-Doppler and phlebography. The deep venous tracts are shown to be dilated. Reflux is shown to the superficial veins.
Surgical Endoscopy
Adverse economic conditions often prevent the widespread implementation of modern surgical techni... more Adverse economic conditions often prevent the widespread implementation of modern surgical techniques in third world countries such as in Sub-Sahara Africa. To demonstrate that a modern technique (laparoscopic totally extraperitoneal inguinal hernioplasty [TEP]) can safely be performed at significantly lower cost using inexpensive mesh material. Douala University Hospital Gynecology, Obstetrics and Pediatrics and two affiliated centers, Ayos Regional Hospital and Edéa Regional Hospital in Cameroon. Prospective randomized controlled trial (RCT) of consecutive adult patients presenting with primary inguinal hernia treated by TEP, comparing implantation of sterilized mosquito mesh (MM) with conventional polypropylene mesh (CM). Primary endpoints were peroperative, early and midterm postoperative complications and hernia recurrence at 30 months. Sixty-two patients (48 males) were randomized to MM (n = 32) or CM (n = 30). Groups were similar in age distribution and occupational features. Peroperative and early outcomes differed in terms of conversion rate (2/32 MM) due to external (electrical power supply) factors and mesh removal for early obstruction (1/30 CM). No outcome differences, including no recurrences, were noted after a median follow-up of 21 months. In this RCT with medium-term follow-up, TEP performed with MM appears not inferior to CM.
Revue Medicale de Bruxelles
Le Carnet PSY, 2006
Cet article porte sur les ressources tant relationnelles qu’intrapsychiques de l’enfant pour fair... more Cet article porte sur les ressources tant relationnelles qu’intrapsychiques de l’enfant pour faire face a l’hospitalisation suite a une intervention chirurgicale lourde. Les auteurs se basent sur une etude de cas qualitative et retrospective d’enfants en periode de latence. Trois enfants et leurs parents ont participe a un entretien semi-directif comprenant une anamnese familiale et medicale. Le vecu inconscient a ete apprehende par une epreuve projective. Les resultats montrent que les enfants presentent une sensibilite a l’angoisse de separation voire d’abandon et a l’angoisse de castration voire d’aneantissement ou de mort. Ces angoisses de separation semblent venir entraver les mouvements d’autonomisation des enfants. L’ intervention chirurgicale apparait comme l’element anxiogene majeur. Divers elements permettent a l’enfant de depasser l’experience a laquelle il a ete confronte et d’etre “resilient”: ses capacites de mentalisation et de symbolisation, son aptitude a utiliser les ressources relationnelles comme la possibilite de s’appuyer sur le personnel soignant et les possibilites de l’enfant d’occuper une position active, notamment de revendication (toutes ces aptitudes traduisant l’existence d’un lien d’attachement securisant). L’aptitude cruciale dans l’abord de l’experience de l’hospitalisation semble donc etre celle qui permet a l’enfant d’identifier ses etats internes et egalement ceux des autres. Cette aptitude s’assortit de capacites relationnelles.
Revue Medicale de Bruxelles
Journal Belge de Radiologie
Although rare, sacrococcygeal teratoma is the most common congenital tumor. We report a case of a... more Although rare, sacrococcygeal teratoma is the most common congenital tumor. We report a case of a precociously diagnosed and rapidly growing cystic lesion. These tumors may be associated with hemodynamic and hemorrhagic complications. Therefore, affected fetuses should be carefully followed during the entire pregnancy by ultrasound and MR imaging in order to evaluate the evolution of the mass, its consequences on the fetal organs and to appreciate the wellbeing of the fetus. Delivery and post natal work up can therefore be optimized.
Cutis Marmorata Phlebectasia is a rare congenital disorder characterized by persistant erythrocya... more Cutis Marmorata Phlebectasia is a rare congenital disorder characterized by persistant erythrocyanotic mottled areas associated with superficial phlebectases with cutaneous atrophy and ulcerations. The anomaly is present at birth. Spontasneous improvement is the rule. Four cases a described with vascular investigations, coloured echodoppler and phlebography. The deep venous tracts we shown to be dilated. Reflux is shown to the superficial veins
JBR-BTR : organe de la Societe royale belge de radiologie (SRBR) = orgaan van de Koninklijke Belgische Vereniging voor Radiologie, 2009
Background: This 14-year-old boy was examined by his general practitioner because of epigastric p... more Background: This 14-year-old boy was examined by his general practitioner because of epigastric pain, pyrosis and recurrent vomiting. He also reports two episodes of hematemesis and weight loss over the last two months. Clinical examination was unremarkable. Gastroscopy demonstrated esophagitis as well as an ulcerated, polypoid mass in the duodenum, that was biopsied. Histology concluded to an ulcerated benign juvenile polyp and gastritis. A colonoscopy did not reveal polyposis. Symptoms did not improve under anti-acid medication. Furthermore, upper digestive tract obstruction developed.The child was transferred to our institution.
The authors review the biochemical and biological properties of chromogranins and pancreastatin. ... more The authors review the biochemical and biological properties of chromogranins and pancreastatin. Chromogranins A, B and C are acidic proteins of a molecular mass of 48,000, 76,000 and 67,000, respectively, located in the secretory granules of the neuroendocrine cells. Since large amounts of chromogranin A were found in most neuroendocrine tumours, chromogranin A plasma determination is a diagnostic tool even in silent tumours. Pancreastatin is a peptide derived from chromogranin A, which inhibits insulin secretion, exocrine pancreatic secretion and gastric acid secretion, and which stimulates glucagon secretion. Pancreastatin has different molecular forms, the major form being a high molecular form of 92 amino acids, found by the authors in human stomach- and colon extracts and in a liver metastasis of a gastrinoma. The controlled proteolysis of chromogranin A in gut neuroendocrine cells generates predominantly the high molecular weight form.
Phlebologie, 1992
Cutis Marmorata Phlebectasica is a rare congenital disorder characterized by persistent erythrocy... more Cutis Marmorata Phlebectasica is a rare congenital disorder characterized by persistent erythrocyanotic mottled areas associated with superficial phlebectases with cutaneous atrophy and ulcerations. The anomaly is present at birth. Spontaneous improvement is the rule. Four cases are described with vascular investigations, coloured echo-Doppler and phlebography. The deep venous tracts are shown to be dilated. Reflux is shown to the superficial veins.
British Journal of Surgery
Acta gastro-enterologica Belgica
The authors review the biochemical and biological properties of chromogranins and pancreastatin. ... more The authors review the biochemical and biological properties of chromogranins and pancreastatin. Chromogranins A, B and C are acidic proteins of a molecular mass of 48,000, 76,000 and 67,000, respectively, located in the secretory granules of the neuroendocrine cells. Since large amounts of chromogranin A were found in most neuroendocrine tumours, chromogranin A plasma determination is a diagnostic tool even in silent tumours. Pancreastatin is a peptide derived from chromogranin A, which inhibits insulin secretion, exocrine pancreatic secretion and gastric acid secretion, and which stimulates glucagon secretion. Pancreastatin has different molecular forms, the major form being a high molecular form of 92 amino acids, found by the authors in human stomach- and colon extracts and in a liver metastasis of a gastrinoma. The controlled proteolysis of chromogranin A in gut neuroendocrine cells generates predominantly the high molecular weight form.
Peptides, 1994
A radioimmunoassay of human pancreastatin was developed using a rabbit antiserum that selectively... more A radioimmunoassay of human pancreastatin was developed using a rabbit antiserum that selectively recognized the C-terminal amidated end of the peptide, and it was used for the identification of the molecular forms of pancreastatin in human gut (stomach, duodenum, small intestine, colon) and endocrine tumor extracts (liver metastasis of a gastrinoma and a medullary carcinoma of thyroid, one nonsecreting pancreatic tumor, one recurrence of a gut carcinoid, one vipoma and one insulinoma). In all gut extracts, a gel filtration chromatography revealed the presence of three peaks of pancreastatin-like immunoreactivity. The predominant form eluted with an apparent molecular weight higher than that of pancreastatin. This form was also predominant in the endocrine tumors analyzed, except in the insulinoma, where a lower molecular weight form predominated. The high molecular form was further purified from a liver metastasis of a gastrinoma. The pancreastatin-like immunoreactivity eluted in all the chromatographical systems (reverse-phase, ion exchange) as a single peak that was finally purified to homogeneity and sequenced. The sequence of the first 29 N-terminal amino acids was obtained unambiguously and corresponded to the sequence 210-238 of chromogranin A. Considering the selectivity of the assay used for peptide identification, this major form was identified as the fragment 210-301 of chromogranin A. It is likely that the predominant form of pancreastatin in human gut extracts and noninsular tumors is a 92 amino acid peptide.
Journal of ultrasound in medicine: official journal of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine
JBR-BTR: organe de la Société royale belge de radiologie (SRBR) = orgaan van de Koninklijke Belgische Vereniging voor Radiologie (KBVR)
... There are 11 cases report-ed that involve the digestive tract and only 1 case in the duodenum... more ... There are 11 cases report-ed that involve the digestive tract and only 1 case in the duodenum. ... In: Coffin CM, O'Shea PA, Dehner LP, eds. Pediatric soft tissue tumors: a clinical patho-logical, and therapeutic approach, 1st ed. Baltimore: Williams & Wilkins, 1997: 295-310.
JBR-BTR : organe de la Société royale belge de radiologie (SRBR) = orgaan van de Koninklijke Belgische Vereniging voor Radiologie (KBVR)
Although rare, sacrococcygeal teratoma is the most common congenital tumor. We report a case of a... more Although rare, sacrococcygeal teratoma is the most common congenital tumor. We report a case of a precociously diagnosed and rapidly growing cystic lesion. These tumors may be associated with hemodynamic and hemorrhagic complications. Therefore, affected fetuses should be carefully followed during the entire pregnancy by ultrasound and MR imaging in order to evaluate the evolution of the mass, its consequences on the fetal organs and to appreciate the wellbeing of the fetus. Delivery and post natal work up can therefore be optimized.
JBR-BTR : organe de la Société royale belge de radiologie (SRBR) = orgaan van de Koninklijke Belgische Vereniging voor Radiologie (KBVR)
... There are 11 cases report-ed that involve the digestive tract and only 1 case in the duodenum... more ... There are 11 cases report-ed that involve the digestive tract and only 1 case in the duodenum. ... In: Coffin CM, O'Shea PA, Dehner LP, eds. Pediatric soft tissue tumors: a clinical patho-logical, and therapeutic approach, 1st ed. Baltimore: Williams & Wilkins, 1997: 295-310.
Acta chirurgica Belgica
We report a case of foetal urinary bladder rupture due to posterior urethral valves. A megacystis... more We report a case of foetal urinary bladder rupture due to posterior urethral valves. A megacystis was diagnosed in a male foetus during routine second trimester ultrasound examination. The diagnosis of bladder rupture was made as, one week later, the bladder became undetectable with the appearance of ascites. During the follow-up, no oligohydramnios developed and intercurrent ascites resolved spontaneously. There are three described mechanisms releasing bladder hyperpressure: bladder diverticles, unilateral vesicoureteral reflux and bladder rupture. In this case, another mechanism might be involved: a patent urachus. The urethral valves were resected and no other surgical treatment was needed. The renal function remained normal. No long-term vesical follow-up of this pathology is available in the literature.
European journal of pediatric surgery : official journal of Austrian Association of Pediatric Surgery ... [et al] = Zeitschrift für Kinderchirurgie, 2007
We report the case of a newborn presenting with a pediculated mass arising from the anal margin. ... more We report the case of a newborn presenting with a pediculated mass arising from the anal margin. Antenatal sonogram and magnetic resonance imaging were unable to diagnose the precise nature of the lesion. Sacrococcygeal teratoma, an enterogenous cyst, a polyp, a prolapse or other perineal tumors were all proposed as possible entities. At birth, no other anatomic anomaly than this homogenous 2 cm para-anal lesion was seen. Excision of the mass was performed under general anesthesia. The postoperative histological exam showed mature fat cells. Reviewing the literature, there have been few previously reported cases of congenital perineal lipoma. It is a rare, benign and easy-to-treat condition that can be evocated by morphological sonography or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).
Journal of ultrasound in medicine : official journal of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine, 1998