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Fourteen patients who had developed a chylothorax in childhood during a ten year period, from
Jan. 1979 to July 1989, were reviewed by their hospital records. The chylothoraces occurred most
frequently as complications of cardiothoracic surgeries in eight patients(57%). Four cases followed
extrapericardial operations such as ligation of PDA and take-down of Blalock-Taussig shunt, and
four cases followed intrapericardial operations such as corrective operations... |
