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Tuberculous chylous ascites: pathognomonic CT findings
A Anbarasu1, A Upadhyay, S A Merchant
1Department of Radiology and Imaging, L.T.M. Medical College, Sion, Bombay 400 022, India.
Abdominal Imaging
|January 1, 1997
Abstract:
The computed tomographic (CT) appearance of chylous ascites is usually that of water with corresponding attenuation coefficients. This case report depicts the fat-fluid level sign on CT (shown by supine and decubitus scans), which is pathognomonic of chylous ascites.