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Ann Thorac Surg 1998;66:1845-1846
© 1998 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

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Key References

Chylothorax

^a Section of Critical Care, Department of Pediatrics, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

• Anatomy/Pathophysiology
  
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• Reviews
  
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• Management: Adults
  
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  • 22. Ferguson MK, Little AG, Skinner DB. Current concepts in the management of postoperative chylothorax. Ann Thorac Surg 1985;40:542–5.
    
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  • 25. Marts BC, Naunheim KS, Fiore AC, Pennington DG. Conservative versus surgical management of chylothorax. Am J Surg 1992;164:532–5.
    
  • 26. Vallieres E. Postpneumonectomy chylothorax. Ann Thorac Surg 1993;55:1006–8.
    
  • 27. Sarsam MA, Rahman AN, Deiraniya AK. Postpneumonectomy chylothorax. Ann Thorac Surg 1994;57:689–90.
    
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  • 33. Van Veldhuizen PJ, Taylor S. Chylothorax: a complication of left subclavian vein thrombosis. Am J Clin Oncol 1996;19:99–101.
    
  
  

• Management: Infants and Children
  
  • 34. Kosloske AM, Martin LW, Schubert WK. Management of chylothorax in children by thoracentesis and medium-chain triglyceride feedings. J Pediatr Surg 1974;9:365–71.
    
  • 35. Johnson DC. Low thoracic duct ligation for postoperative chylous effusions in infants and children. Aust NZ Surg 1977;47:94–7.
    
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  • 37. Milsom JW, Kron IL, Rheoban KS, Rodgers BM. Chylothorax: an assessment of current surgical management. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1985;89:221–7.
    
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  • 39. Allen EM, van Heeckeren DW, Spector ML, Blumer JL. Management of nutritional and infectious complications of postoperative chylothorax in children. J Pediatr Surg 1991;26:1169–74.
    
  • 40. Berman W Jr, Fripp RR, Yabek SM, Wernly J, Carlew S. Great vein and right atrial thrombosis in critically ill infants and children with central venous lines. Chest 1991;99:963–7.
    
  • 41. Le Coultre C, Oberhänsli I, Mossaz A, Bugmann P, Faidutti B, Belli DC. Postoperative chylothorax in children: differences between vascular and traumatic origin. J Pediatr Surg 1991;26:519–23.
    
  • 42. Bond SJ, Guzzetta PC, Snyder ML, Randolph JG. Management of pediatric postoperative chylothorax. Ann Thorac Surg 1993;56:469–73.
    
  • 43. Nguyen DM, Shum-Tim D, Dobell ARC, Tchervenkov CI. The management of chylothorax/chylopericardium following pediatric cardiac surgery: a 10-year experience. J Card Surg 1995;10:302–8.
    
  • 44. Guleserian KJ, Gilchrist BF, Luks FI, Wesselhoeft CW, DeLuca FG. Child abuse as a cause of traumatic chylothorax. J Pediatr Surg 1996;31:1696–7.
    
  
  

• Newer Techniques of Management
  
  • 45. Murphy MC, Newman BM, Rodgers BM. Pleuroperitoneal shunts in the management of persistent chylothorax. Ann Thorac Surg 1989;48:195–200.
    
  • 46. Rheuban KS, Kron IL, Carpenter MA, Gutgesell HP, Rodgers BM. Pleuroperitoneal shunts for refractory chylothorax after operation for congenital heart disease. Ann Thorac Surg 1992;53:85–7.
    
  • 47. Ferguson MK. Thoracoscopy for empyema, bronchopleural fistula, and chylothorax. Ann Thorac Surg 1993;56:644–5.
    
  • 48. Linder A, Friedel G, Toomes H. Prerequisites, indications, and techniques of video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery. Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1993;41:140–6.
    
  • 49. Nguyen D, Tchervenkov CI. Successful management of postoperative chylothorax with fibrin glue in a premature neonate. Can J Surg 1994;37:158–60.
    
  • 50. Graham DD, McGahren ED, Tribble CG, Daniel TM, Rodgers BM. Use of video-assisted thoracic surgery in the treatment of chylothorax. Ann Thorac Surg 1994;57:1507–12.
    
  
  

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