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Primary chylopericardium treated with video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery
S Watanabe1, K Kariatsumari, K Sakasegawa
1Second Department of Surgery, Kagoshima University Faculty of Medicine, Kagoshima, Japan. Shun@khosp2.kufm.kagoshima-u.ac.jp
The Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeon
|November 29, 2002
Abstract:
Here, we report on a 30-year-old female with primary chylopericardium who successfully underwent thoracic duct clipping and partial pericardiectomy using video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS). Recently, a few cases of this disease have been treated utilizing VATS. This is a fully detailed description of the treatment of primary chylopericardium including a description of intraoperative findings and photographs obtained during the course of VATS.