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An 8-year-old girl had an orbital-adnexal lymphangioma and ipsilateral orbital and middle cranial fossa arteriovenous malformations. High-resolution magnetic resonance image scanning, orbital ultrasonography, and digital subtraction angiography were used for diagnosis and preoperative assessment. Complications related to this vascular neoplasm included amblyopia, acute hemorrhage with proptosis, exposure keratitis, cosmetic deformity, and recurrent preseptal cellulitis. The girl was treated with both embolization and orbital surgery for recurrent hemorrhage and proptosis. We postulated that the coexistence of a lymphangioma and arteriovenous malformation represents an unusual and extensive maldevelopment of vascular embryogenesis.

Five of 86 male patients with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma had chromosomally abnormal clones in their lymph nodes, which involved a missing Y chromosome. The loss of the Y chromosome was confined to the malignant cells when normal cells were present. The patients ranged in age from 41 to 85 years. All five patients had B-cell lymphomas with the histologic subtype diffuse large cell in two patients and immunoblastic, follicular large cell and follicular mixed in a single patient each. The t(14; 18)(q32;q21) chromosome abnormality accompanied the missing Y chromosome in four of the five patients. It appears that Y chromosome loss is one of the secondary abnormalities associated with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.