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Treatment of postoperative chylothorax through laparoscopic thoracic duct ligation
B C Vassallo1, D Cavadas, E Beveraggi
1Department of Thoracic Surgery and Chief of Lung Transplantation, Italian Hospital, Gascon 450, Buenos Aires, Argentina. bcvassallo@hitalba.edu.ar
Abstract:
We report the laparoscopic transhiatal thoracic duct ligation to solve postoperative chylothorax after right total pleurectomy for malignant diffuse mesothelioma.