Value of lymphangiography in the diagnosis and treatment of lymphangioma.

On the basis of the author's own results and literary data emphasis is laid on the significance of lymphography for confirming or establishing a diagnosis, for determining the extent of a lesion and for proper considerations on indications for surgical treatment. Relymphography following a surgical intervention is capable of showing whether the latter had been successful and of revealing foci of recurrence. The case history bears on two histologically verified lymphangioma -- in the first case of the soft parts of the right leg, in the second of the soft part of the left thoracic wall, the armpit and the mediastinum. In both cases, relapse after repeated surgical interventions was verified by direct lymphography from superficial lymph vessels of the foot and the cubital fossa.