Chylothorax: Aetiology, diagnosis and therapeutic options

Respiratory Medicine

Volumn 104, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-8

  McGrath, Emmet E ^a   Blades, Zoe ^a   Anderson, Paul B ^a  

^a NORTHERN GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chylothorax; Conservativemanagement; Malignancy; Pleural fluid analysis; Surgical management; Triglycerides

Indexed keywords

BLEOMYCIN; CHOLESTEROL; CHYLOMICRON; OCTREOTIDE; POVIDONE; SOMATOSTATIN; TALC; TETRACYCLINE; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; CANNULATION; CHYLOTHORAX; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CYTODIAGNOSIS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; IATROGENIC DISEASE; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; LIGATION; LYMPHANGIOGRAPHY; LYMPHANGIOLEIOMYOMATOSIS; LYMPHATIC SYSTEM; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MALNUTRITION; PLEURA CAVITY; PLEURA EFFUSION; PLEURA FLUID; PLEURECTOMY; PLEURODESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; REVIEW; THORACIC DUCT; YELLOW NAIL SYNDROME;

BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CHYLOTHORAX; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; PROGNOSIS; TRIGLYCERIDES;

EID: 73749088440     PISSN: 09546111     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rmed.2009.08.010     Document Type: Review

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