Postoperative chylous leak after a laparoscopic low anterior resection: a case report

Chylous leakage is an unusual event after abdominal surgery and even more during colorectal procedures. The management of this complication is already discussed in medical literature. In our case a laparoscopic low anterior resection to an 81-year-old woman with a sigmoid and rectum colon tumor was...

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Autores principales: La Francesca, Matías Ezequiel, López, Carolina, Kraiñski, María Sol, Hanndorf, Fiorela, Laporte, Mariano
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
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Publicado: Oxford University Press 2021
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8510641/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34650793
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jscr/rjab443
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author La Francesca, Matías Ezequiel
López, Carolina
Kraiñski, María Sol
Hanndorf, Fiorela
Laporte, Mariano
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López, Carolina
Kraiñski, María Sol
Hanndorf, Fiorela
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description Chylous leakage is an unusual event after abdominal surgery and even more during colorectal procedures. The management of this complication is already discussed in medical literature. In our case a laparoscopic low anterior resection to an 81-year-old woman with a sigmoid and rectum colon tumor was done. The fourth day after surgery postoperative chylous leakage was diagnosed. It was treated with suspension of oral feeding, total parenteral nutrition and Octreotide with a favorable resolution.
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spelling pubmed-85106412021-10-13 Postoperative chylous leak after a laparoscopic low anterior resection: a case report La Francesca, Matías Ezequiel López, Carolina Kraiñski, María Sol Hanndorf, Fiorela Laporte, Mariano J Surg Case Rep Case Report Chylous leakage is an unusual event after abdominal surgery and even more during colorectal procedures. The management of this complication is already discussed in medical literature. In our case a laparoscopic low anterior resection to an 81-year-old woman with a sigmoid and rectum colon tumor was done. The fourth day after surgery postoperative chylous leakage was diagnosed. It was treated with suspension of oral feeding, total parenteral nutrition and Octreotide with a favorable resolution. Oxford University Press 2021-10-12 /pmc/articles/PMC8510641/ /pubmed/34650793 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jscr/rjab443 Text en Published by Oxford University Press and JSCR Publishing Ltd. All rights reserved. © The Author(s) 2021. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com
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La Francesca, Matías Ezequiel
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Kraiñski, María Sol
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Postoperative chylous leak after a laparoscopic low anterior resection: a case report
title Postoperative chylous leak after a laparoscopic low anterior resection: a case report
title_full Postoperative chylous leak after a laparoscopic low anterior resection: a case report
title_fullStr Postoperative chylous leak after a laparoscopic low anterior resection: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Postoperative chylous leak after a laparoscopic low anterior resection: a case report
title_short Postoperative chylous leak after a laparoscopic low anterior resection: a case report
title_sort postoperative chylous leak after a laparoscopic low anterior resection: a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8510641/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jscr/rjab443
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