Chylous ascites associated with chylothorax; a rare sequela of penetrating abdominal trauma: a case report

We present the case of a patient with the rare combination of chylous ascites and chylothorax resulting from penetrating abdominal injury. This patient was successfully managed with total parenteral nutrition. This case report is used to highlight the clinical features and management options of this...

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Autores principales: Plummer, Joseph M, McFarlane, Michael E, McDonald, Arhcibald H
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2007
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2170448/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18036251
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-1-149
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description We present the case of a patient with the rare combination of chylous ascites and chylothorax resulting from penetrating abdominal injury. This patient was successfully managed with total parenteral nutrition. This case report is used to highlight the clinical features and management options of this uncommon but challenging clinical problem.
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spelling pubmed-21704482008-01-01 Chylous ascites associated with chylothorax; a rare sequela of penetrating abdominal trauma: a case report Plummer, Joseph M McFarlane, Michael E McDonald, Arhcibald H J Med Case Reports Case Report We present the case of a patient with the rare combination of chylous ascites and chylothorax resulting from penetrating abdominal injury. This patient was successfully managed with total parenteral nutrition. This case report is used to highlight the clinical features and management options of this uncommon but challenging clinical problem. BioMed Central 2007-11-25 /pmc/articles/PMC2170448/ /pubmed/18036251 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-1-149 Text en Copyright © 2007 Plummer et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Plummer, Joseph M
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Chylous ascites associated with chylothorax; a rare sequela of penetrating abdominal trauma: a case report
title Chylous ascites associated with chylothorax; a rare sequela of penetrating abdominal trauma: a case report
title_full Chylous ascites associated with chylothorax; a rare sequela of penetrating abdominal trauma: a case report
title_fullStr Chylous ascites associated with chylothorax; a rare sequela of penetrating abdominal trauma: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Chylous ascites associated with chylothorax; a rare sequela of penetrating abdominal trauma: a case report
title_short Chylous ascites associated with chylothorax; a rare sequela of penetrating abdominal trauma: a case report
title_sort chylous ascites associated with chylothorax; a rare sequela of penetrating abdominal trauma: a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2170448/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18036251
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-1-149
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