Recurrent chylothorax after neck surgery: Percutaneous thoracic duct embolization as primary treatment

Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 141, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 426-427

  Repko, Brandon M ^a   Scorza, Leslie B ^a   Mahraj, Rickhesvar P ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; CASE REPORT; CHYLOTHORAX; FEMALE; HUMAN; LYMPHANGIOGRAPHY; LYMPHOCELE; NECK DISSECTION; THORACIC DUCT; THORACOCENTESIS;

AGED; CATHETERIZATION, PERIPHERAL; CHYLOTHORAX; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; HYPERPARATHYROIDISM; LYMPHOGRAPHY; NECK; PARATHYROIDECTOMY; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; RECURRENCE; THORACIC DUCT;

EID: 68949198047     PISSN: 01945998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.otohns.2009.02.017     Document Type: Article

References (3)

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