Thoracoscopic management of cervical thoracic duct injuries: An alternative approach

Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 128, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 755-757

  Scott, Kirby J ^a,b,c   Simko, Eric ^a,b  

^a Naval Medical Center ^*

^b Naval Medical Center   (United States)

^c NAVAL MEDICAL CENTER PORTSMOUTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION BIOPSY; CASE REPORT; CHYLE; CHYLOTHORAX; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LARYNGOSCOPY; LIGATION; LYMPH NODE DISSECTION; LYMPHATIC SYSTEM DISEASE; NECK DISSECTION; ONCOCYTOMA; PERILYMPH FISTULA; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; THORACIC DUCT; THORACOSCOPY; THYROID CANCER; THYROIDECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VOCAL CORD PARALYSIS; INJURY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PARENTERAL NUTRITION; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; SKIN FISTULA; THYROID TUMOR;

ADENOMA, OXYPHILIC; CHYLOTHORAX; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; CUTANEOUS FISTULA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; LIGATION; MIDDLE AGED; NECK DISSECTION; PARENTERAL NUTRITION; THORACIC DUCT; THORACOSCOPY; THYROID NEOPLASMS; THYROIDECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0037734276     PISSN: 01945998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0194-5998(03)00253-5     Document Type: Article

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