THIS paper was written to present a case of extensive chylothorax and chyloperitoneum secondary to a thrombus occluding the thoracic duct. The patient had a long venous catheter introduced through ...

This report concerns a patient with tuberculous enteritis in whom the clinical diagnosis was confirmed by isolation of tubercle bacilli from thoracic-duct lymph. Case Report B.S., a 26-year-old ...

Evidence-based recommendations on percutaneous thoracic duct embolisation for persistent chyle leak. In this procedure, under general anaesthesia, ultrasound and X-rays are used to create an image of ...

Figure 5: Assembly and origins of the zebrafish lymphatic thoracic duct. In this study, we have shown the existence of a well-developed lymphatic system in the zebrafish, a vertebrate model ...