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Infected spontaneous chylothorax
S Natrajan1, O Hadeli, S F Quan
1Respiratory Sciences Center, University of Arizona College of Medicine, Tucson 85724, USA.
Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease
|March 7, 1998
Abstract:
Infection of a chylothorax is thought not to occur because chyle is inherently bacteriostatic. We report a case of an infected chylothorax occurring in an immunocompromised patient with pneumonia. To our knowledge, this is the first description of such a case.