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Chylothorax after posterior spinal instrumentation and fusion
R D Rames1, P L Schoenecker, K H Bridwell
1St. Louis Shriners Hospital for Crippled Children, Missouri 63131.
Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research
|December 1, 1990
Abstract:
Chylothorax occurred in a 16-year-old girl after posterior spinal fusion and instrumentation for idiopathic scoliosis. Nonoperative management, including chest tube drainage for 26 days and total parenteral nutrition, successfully treated this unusual complication after a posterior spinal fusion.