Post radiation chylous ascites: a case report

We report a 64 years old gentleman with unresectable right-sided retroperitoneal liposarcoma, who underwent radiotherapy & subsequently developed chylous ascites. He failed conservative management of chylous ascites and this was successfully managed with a peritoneovenous shunt. The pathophysiol...

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Autores principales: Shelat, Vishal G, Pandya, Garvi J, Shabbir, Asim, Diddapur, Ravishankar K
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2805653/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20069070
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-2-9393
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author Shelat, Vishal G
Pandya, Garvi J
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Diddapur, Ravishankar K
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description We report a 64 years old gentleman with unresectable right-sided retroperitoneal liposarcoma, who underwent radiotherapy & subsequently developed chylous ascites. He failed conservative management of chylous ascites and this was successfully managed with a peritoneovenous shunt. The pathophysiology and management of post radiational chylous ascites is discussed.
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spelling pubmed-28056532010-01-13 Post radiation chylous ascites: a case report Shelat, Vishal G Pandya, Garvi J Shabbir, Asim Diddapur, Ravishankar K Cases J Case Report We report a 64 years old gentleman with unresectable right-sided retroperitoneal liposarcoma, who underwent radiotherapy & subsequently developed chylous ascites. He failed conservative management of chylous ascites and this was successfully managed with a peritoneovenous shunt. The pathophysiology and management of post radiational chylous ascites is discussed. BioMed Central 2009-12-23 /pmc/articles/PMC2805653/ /pubmed/20069070 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-2-9393 Text en Copyright ©2009 Shelat 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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Post radiation chylous ascites: a case report
title Post radiation chylous ascites: a case report
title_full Post radiation chylous ascites: a case report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2805653/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20069070
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