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Posttraumatic chyluria due to lymphorenal fistula regressed after somatostatin therapy
C Campieri1, C Raimondi, V Dalmastri
1Institute of Nephrology and Radiology, St. Orsola University Hospital, Bologna, Italy.
Nephron
|January 1, 1996
Abstract:
A sudden-onset chyluria after trauma was evaluated giving evidence of a lymphatic-urinary fistula in the right kidney. Treatment with somatostatin normalized the urinary pattern and the result was maintained even after the discontinuation of the therapy.