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Chyloperitoneum: CT diagnosis
1Department of Radiology, University Hospital and University of Medicine and Dentistry, New Jersey Medical School, Newark 07103.
Clinical Imaging
|October 1, 1994
Abstract:
We describe a patient with ovarian cancer in whom computed tomography revealed a fat-fluid level within ascites, indicating chyloperitoneum. The significance of this finding is discussed, and a mechanism underlying the unusual radiological appearance is suggested.