Modern Management of Chylous Leak Following Head and Neck Surgery: A Discussion of Percutaneous Lymphangiography-Guided Cannulation and Embolization of the Thoracic Duct

Otolaryngologic Clinics of North America

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1231-1240

  Scorza, Leslie B ^a   Goldstein, Bradley J ^b   Mahraj, Rickhesvar P ^a  

^a PENN STATE MILTON S HERSHEY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Maine Coast Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENBUCRILATE; GELFOAM; SCLEROSING AGENT;

ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; CANNULATION; CHYLOTHORAX; CHYLOUS LEAK; COIL EMBOLIZATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; ERYTHEMA; HEAD AND NECK SURGERY; HUMAN; INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY; LYMPHANGIOGRAPHY; LYMPHOSCINTIGRAPHY; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; PARENTERAL NUTRITION; PERILYMPH FISTULA; REVIEW; SECOND LOOK SURGERY; SKIN IRRITATION; THORACIC DUCT; ULTRASOUND; WOUND DEHISCENCE;

CATHETERIZATION; CHYLE; EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; FISTULA; HEAD AND NECK NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LYMPHOGRAPHY; THORACIC DUCT; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 56449113448     PISSN: 00306665     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.otc.2008.06.004     Document Type: Review

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