Chyle leakage in port incision after video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery: case report

A 26-year-old Asian male was found to have chyle leakage from the port incision after video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) for excision of pulmonary bullae. The diagnosis was confirmed by oral intake of Sudan black and by lymphoscintigraphy. The leakage resolved after 5 days of restricted ora...

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Autores principales: Ma, Lin, Pu, Qiang, Zhu, Yunke, Liu, Lunxu
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2964691/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20950471
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-8090-5-83
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author Ma, Lin
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Zhu, Yunke
Liu, Lunxu
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description A 26-year-old Asian male was found to have chyle leakage from the port incision after video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) for excision of pulmonary bullae. The diagnosis was confirmed by oral intake of Sudan black and by lymphoscintigraphy. The leakage resolved after 5 days of restricted oral intake and total parenteral nutrition. No leakage recurred after return of oral intake. Possible explanations for the port incision chyle leakage are obstruction of the thoracic duct, which induced retrograde drainage of the lymphoid fluid, or an aberrant collateral branch of the thoracic duct in the chest wall.
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spelling pubmed-29646912010-10-28 Chyle leakage in port incision after video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery: case report Ma, Lin Pu, Qiang Zhu, Yunke Liu, Lunxu J Cardiothorac Surg Case Report A 26-year-old Asian male was found to have chyle leakage from the port incision after video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) for excision of pulmonary bullae. The diagnosis was confirmed by oral intake of Sudan black and by lymphoscintigraphy. The leakage resolved after 5 days of restricted oral intake and total parenteral nutrition. No leakage recurred after return of oral intake. Possible explanations for the port incision chyle leakage are obstruction of the thoracic duct, which induced retrograde drainage of the lymphoid fluid, or an aberrant collateral branch of the thoracic duct in the chest wall. BioMed Central 2010-10-15 /pmc/articles/PMC2964691/ /pubmed/20950471 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-8090-5-83 Text en Copyright ©2010 Ma 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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Pu, Qiang
Zhu, Yunke
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Chyle leakage in port incision after video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery: case report
title Chyle leakage in port incision after video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery: case report
title_full Chyle leakage in port incision after video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery: case report
title_fullStr Chyle leakage in port incision after video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery: case report
title_full_unstemmed Chyle leakage in port incision after video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery: case report
title_short Chyle leakage in port incision after video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery: case report
title_sort chyle leakage in port incision after video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery: case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2964691/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20950471
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-8090-5-83
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