Chylotamponade: An unusual presentation of Gorham's Syndrome

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 75, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 1650-1652

  Swelstad, Matthew Reed ^a   Frumiento, Carmine ^a   Garry McCoy, Alice ^a   Agni, Rashmi ^a   Weigel, Tracey L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b University of Wisconsin Health   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEAM THERAPY; BONE BIOPSY; CASE REPORT; CHYLOPERICARDIUM; CHYLOTHORAX; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DYSPNEA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GORHAM SYNDROME; HEARTBURN; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LYMPHANGIOMATOSIS; OSTEOLYSIS; PARENTERAL NUTRITION; PERICARDIOCENTESIS; PLEURODESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMPTOM; THORAX PAIN; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; WHEEZING; HEART TAMPONADE; PATHOLOGY; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; RIB; VERTEBRA;

ADULT; CARDIAC TAMPONADE; FEMALE; HUMANS; OSTEOLYSIS, ESSENTIAL; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; RIBS; THORACIC VERTEBRAE;

EID: 0037407286     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(02)04776-8     Document Type: Article

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