| Autor: |
A E, Guzman, L, Rossi, C L, Witte, S, Smyth |
| Rok vydání: |
2002 |
| Předmět: |
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| Zdroj: |
Lymphology. 35(1) |
| ISSN: |
0024-7766 |
| Popis: |
Injuries to the thoracic duct are infrequent but may become life-threatening when chylous leakage persists. This report describes 6 patients with such injuries in whom the leakage resolved spontaneously in one, was corrected using microsurgical lymphatic repair or lymphatic-venous anastomosis in two, successfully treated either by ligation of the thoracic duct or insertion of a peritoneovenous shunt in two, and was eventually controlled after bilateral pleurodesis and thoracic duct ligation by insertion of a peritoneo-venous shunt in one. Conventional lymphography is superior to lymphoscintigraphy and is usually required to document disruption of the thoracic duct. |
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