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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Dumont and Rifkind recently proposed that the New World monkey, the sloth and the bat have evolved only a rudimentary form of thoracic duct because these animals hang upside down from trees 1.

Within the prior 24 months, I have had a financial relationship with a company producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients: Consultant ...