Literature DB >> 2014498

Use of the Denver pleuroperitoneal shunt in the treatment of chylothorax secondary to filariasis.

N D Kitchen1, D B Hocken, R M Greenhalgh, D K Kaplan.   

Abstract

A 57 year old woman developed a chylothorax as a result of having had filariasis as a child. This failed to respond to conservative measures but was successfully managed by means of a Denver pleuroperitoneal shunt.

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Year:  1991        PMID： 2014498      PMCID： PMC462983          DOI： 10.1136/thx.46.2.144

Source DB:  PubMed          Journal:  Thorax        ISSN： 0040-6376            Impact factor:   9.139


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1.  Pleuroperitoneal shunts in the management of neonatal chylothorax.

Authors:  R G Azizkhan; J Canfield; B A Alford; B M Rodgers
Journal:  J Pediatr Surg       Date:  1983-12       Impact factor: 2.545

2.  The management of chylothorax.

Authors:  C L Robinson
Journal:  Ann Thorac Surg       Date:  1985-01       Impact factor: 4.330

3.  Chylothorax: an assessment of current surgical management.

Authors:  J W Milsom; I L Kron; K S Rheuban; B M Rodgers
Journal:  J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg       Date:  1985-02       Impact factor: 5.209
  3 in total
  1 in total

1.  Thoracoscopic ligation of the thoracic duct.

Authors:  R B Kent; T W Pinson
Journal:  Surg Endosc       Date:  1993 Jan-Feb       Impact factor: 4.584
  1 in total

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