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Front Oncol
January 2025
Department of Head and Neck Surgery, Gansu Provincial Cancer Hospital, Lanzhou, China.
Purpose: Investigating the diagnosis and treatment of bilateral Chylothorax after neck lymph node dissection for thyroid cancer.
Methods: The clinical data of a patient with bilateral chylothorax after neck lymph node dissection for thyroid cancer were retrospectively analyzed, and the relevant literature was reviewed.
Results: The patient underwent a total thyroidectomy and left neck lymph node dissection, with no evidence of lymph fluid leakage observed during the operation.
Pediatr Cardiol
January 2025
Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, Chicago, USA.
Prolonged pleural drainage and chylothorax are common in postoperative Fontan patients and are associated with increased morbidity and mortality. Multiple medical and interventional treatment strategies exist and vary between centers. This is a retrospective multicenter observational cohort study of pediatric patients who underwent Fontan operation at 8 pediatric cardiac surgical institutions from 1/1/2019 to 12/31/2021.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Thorac Dis
December 2024
Department of Thoracic Surgery, The Second Hospital of Nanjing, Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing, China.
Background: Chylothorax following esophagectomy is a frustrating complication with considerable morbidity. In addition, recognizing the morphological patterns of the thoracic duct (TD) holds great significance. This study was aimed at explore the safety and efficacy of three-dimensional (3D) thoracoscope in comparison with indocyanine green (ICG) fluorescence to identify TD during minimally invasive esophagectomy (MIE) for esophageal cancer.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Gastrointest Cancer
January 2025
MM Medical College Sadopur, Haryana, India.
Purpose: Neoadjuvant chemotherapy followed by esophagectomy is the usual approach to manage esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC). The optimal interval to operate after completion of neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy (NACRT) still remains controversial.
Methods: A prospective study was conducted to observe and compare postoperative complications and pathological outcomes in patients with squamous cell carcinoma of the esophagus who underwent NACRT followed by surgery within 8 weeks or after 8 weeks of NACRT completion.
Ann Thorac Surg Short Rep
June 2024
Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Thoracic duct embolization has gained widespread acceptance as an effective treatment of postoperative chylothorax. We describe a patient with chylothorax after pneumonectomy requiring thoracic duct embolization who presented again with a pneumonectomy space infection. Bacterial culture was positive for gastrointestinal flora, which suggests that the pleural space was inoculated at the time of thoracic duct embolization.
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