Treatment of postoperative chylothorax through laparoscopic thoracic duct ligation.

Eur J Cardiothorac Surg

Department of Thoracic Surgery and Chief of Lung Transplantation, Italian Hospital, Gascon 450, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Published: March 2002

We report the laparoscopic transhiatal thoracic duct ligation to solve postoperative chylothorax after right total pleurectomy for malignant diffuse mesothelioma.

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