THIS paper was written to present a case of extensive chylothorax and chyloperitoneum secondary to a thrombus occluding the thoracic duct. The patient had a long venous catheter introduced through a ...

Edema develops when lymph does not return to the venous circulation at a rate equal to the rate of capillary filtration. Fetal sheep develop edema as well as an increased central venous pressure while ...

IN mammals lymph vessels draining the abdominal viscera and lower half of the body converge just below the diaphragm to form the thoracic duct, a single major channel which ascends through the chest ...

Evidence-based recommendations on percutaneous thoracic duct embolisation for persistent chyle leak. In this procedure, under general anaesthesia, ultrasound and X-rays are used to create an image of ...

Initial control studies were performed on 4 large adult mongrel dogs with the . . . From the Department of Radiology, Stanford University School of Medicine. Supported in part by a grant (HE-03043) ...

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1.1 Evidence on the safety and efficacy of percutaneous thoracic duct embolisation for persistent chyle leak is limited in quantity and quality. Therefore, this procedure should only be used with ...