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Acute pancreatitis after thoracic duct ligation for iatrogenic chylothorax. A case report

BACKGROUND: To report the association between thoracic duct ligation and acute pancreatitis. The association between sudden stop of lymphatic flow and pancreatitis has been established in experimental models. CASE PRESENTATION: A 57-year-old woman operated for thymoma presented a iatrogenic chylotho...

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Autores principales: Bédat, Benoît, Scarpa, Cosimo Riccardo, Sadowski, Samira Mercedes, Triponez, Frédéric, Karenovics, Wolfram
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5260084/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28114912
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12893-017-0204-3