Massive Bilateral Chylothoraces Complicating Mediastinal Granulomatous Disease

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 88, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1012-1013

  Fernandez, Felix G ^a   Denlinger, Chadrick E ^a   Patterson, G Alexander ^a   Kreisel, Daniel ^a   Krupnick, Alexander S ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHYLE; CHYLOTHORAX; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; COUGHING; DRAIN; DYSPNEA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HYALINE DEGENERATION; LEG EDEMA; LUNG FIBROSIS; LUNG GRANULOMATOSIS; LUNG HEMODYNAMICS; LYMPHADENOPATHY; MALE; MEDIASTINOSCOPY; MEDIASTINUM GRANULOMATOSIS; MEDIASTINUM LYMPH NODE; PARENTERAL NUTRITION; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PLEURA CAVITY; PLEURA EFFUSION; PLEURODESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORACOTOMY; THORAX DRAINAGE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TUBE REMOVAL;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; CALCINOSIS; CHEST TUBES; CHYLOTHORAX; FIBROSIS; GRANULOMA; HISTOPLASMA; HISTOPLASMOSIS; HUMANS; LYMPH NODES; MALE; MEDIASTINAL DISEASES; MEDIASTINOSCOPY; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PLEURAL EFFUSION; REOPERATION; THORACIC DUCT; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 68849087686     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2009.01.053     Document Type: Article

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