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[Chylothorax as presenting form of a gastric adenocarcinoma]
A Martín-Joven1, A Fernández Ballesteros, M Cervero
1Servicio de Medicina Interna, Hospital Severo Ochoa, Madrid.
Revista Espanola De Enfermedades Digestivas
|December 1, 1996
Abstract:
Malignancies other than lymphoma can in rare instances induce the development of chylothorax. A patient with this unusual type of pleural effusion is described herein. The need to rule out a gastric neoplasm when confronted with a case of chylothorax with no obvious cause is stressed.