Chylothorax in hairy cell leukemia

D F da Cunha1, V M dos Santos, S F da Cunha

  • 1Nutrition Division and Pathology Post-graduation Course of Uberaba Medical School, MG, Brazil. dfcnutro@mednet.com.br

Medicina
|June 1, 1999
PubMed

A case of postoperative left chylothorax in a 43-year-old black woman with hairy cell leukemia is reported. First submitted to pleural drainage, she was successfully treated with a combination of chemotherapy and elemental enteral diet enriched with medium-chain triglycerides.

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