CHYLOUS METRORRHEA/ RECENT BOOKS

A nine-year-old girl with primary (idiopathic) chylous metrorrhea is described. Extravasation from retroperitoneal lymphatics into the vaginal vault was seen on dorsal pedal lymphangiography. Bony abnormalities were also present in the lumbosacral vertebrae. Nineteen months after transperitoneal lymphangiectomy she is asymptomatic.