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Thoracic duct fistula after thyroid cancer surgery: towards a new treatment?
Jean-François Rodier1, Pierre-Philippe Volkmar, Frédéric Bodin
1Department of Surgical Oncology, Paul Strauss Cancer Center, Strasbourg, France.
Abstract:
The use of somatostatin analogs is a new conservative therapeutic approach for the treatment of chyle fistulas developing after thyroid cancer surgery. The combination therapy with a total parenteral nutrition should avoid the high morbidity of a re-intervention with an uncertain outcome. This promising trend is supported by the present case report of a chyle leak occurring after total thyroidectomy with central and lateral neck dissection for a papillary carcinoma, which was treated successfully without immediate or distant sequelae.
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