The management of chyle fistula

Laryngoscope

Volumn 100, Issue 7, 1990, Pages 771-774

  Spiro, Jeffrey D ^a   Spiro, Ronald H ^a   Strong, Elliot W ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CERVICAL LYMPH NODE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; FISTULA; HUMAN; LYMPHATIC DRAINAGE; LYMPHEDEMA; METHODOLOGY; NECK DISSECTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CHYLE; CHYLOTHORAX; DRAINAGE; FISTULA; HUMAN; NECK; NECK DISSECTION; PLEURAL EFFUSION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REOPERATION; SERUM ALBUMIN; THORACIC DUCT;

EID: 0025294452     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: 15314995     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1288/00005537-199007000-00014     Document Type: Article

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