RadiologicPathologic Conference of Keller Army Community Hospital at West Point, the United States Military Academy
Calcified Lymphangioma of the Gonadal Vein
Liem T. Bui-Mansfield1,2,
Keith J. Kaplan3 and
Charles Hollcraft1
1 Department of Radiology, Keller Army Community Hospital, West Point, NY
10996-1197.
2 Department of Radiology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Medical
Center Blvd., Winston-Salem, NC 27157-1088.
3 Department of Pathology, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, 7100 Georgia Ave.
N.W., Washington, DC 20307-5001.

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Fig. 1A. 64-year-old woman with calcified lymphangioma of left gonadal
vein. Contrast-enhanced CT scan shows nonenhancing soft-tissue mass
(arrow) with phlebolithlike calcifications anterior to left psoas
muscle and displacing left ureter medially.
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Fig. 1B. 64-year-old woman with calcified lymphangioma of left gonadal
vein. Photograph of surgical specimen consists of fairly well circumscribed
fatty-appearing mass with multiple hemorrhagic, compressible, spongelike
lesions (arrow). Vascular lumen is present.
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Fig. 1C. 64-year-old woman with calcified lymphangioma of left gonadal
vein. Photomicrograph of surgical specimen shows multiple cystic spaces (C)
lined by attenuated endothelium resembling normal lymphatics. Large vessel
with phlebolith (P) is present. (H and E, x4)
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Fig. 1D. 64-year-old woman with calcified lymphangioma of left gonadal
vein. Photomicrograph of surgical specimen shows cystic spaces (C) lined by
attenuated endothelium resembling normal lymphatics with dense lymphoid
aggregates (arrow) and engorged vascular spaces (V). (H and E,
x10)
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