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Spontaneous bilateral chylothorax: uniform features of a rare condition
E Garcia Restoy1, F Bella Cueto, E Espejo Arenas
1Servei de Medicine Interma, Hospital de Sant Llàtzer, Terrassa, Spain.
The European Respiratory Journal
|October 1, 1988
Abstract:
A 67-yr-old woman was admitted with dyspnoea, chest and neck pain and swelling of both supraclavicular fossae and the neck. Chest X-ray showed bilateral pleural effusions. Thoracocentesis yielded a milky fluid with a high triglyceride level. Four previously published cases had similar clinical manifestations. The pathophysiology is discussed.