Case report
English
Sunil Natrajan, Khaled O. Hadeli, Stuart F. Quana.
Respiratory Sciences Center, University of Arizona College of Medicine, Tucson 85724, USA.
Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis. 1998 Jan;30(1):31-2.
Abstract
Infection of a chylothorax is thought not to occur because chyle is inherently bacteriostatic. We report a case of an infected chylothorax occurring in an immunocompromised patient with pneumonia. To our knowledge, this is the first description of such a case.
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