Os autores apresentaram um caso de linfangioma cístico congênito, localizado na região axilar esquerda e porção lateral correspondente do torax, em menina de 19 meses de idade, cujo tratamento cirúrgico teve pleno êxito. O tumor existia desde o nascimento, a sua estrutura histológica correspondendo à de linfangioma cístico, associada à de linfangioma cavernoso.

A case of ganglioneuroma in the neck of a girl sixteen years old first noticed at the age of fifteen months is reported. The tumor successfully removed at operation has the size of an orange and is in relation by its internal surface with the trachea, oesophagus and vertebral column. Anteriorly it is crossed by the left common carotid and internal jugular vein which are meanwhile dissociated. Although this suggests an origin from the pneumogastric nerve no convincing proof of such an origin was obtained.