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Thoracoscopic treatment of postoperative chylothorax after coronary bypass surgery
J P Janssen1, H J Joosten, P E Postmus
1Department of Pulmonology, Canisius Wilhelmina Hospital, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
Thorax
|December 1, 1994
Abstract:
Chylothorax after sternotomy for aortocoronary bypass surgery is a rare but serious complication. To avoid lateral thoracotomy a left sided thoracoscopy was performed and the site of the leakage was immediately found and successfully clipped.