Efficacy of octreotide against chylothorax following lateral neck dissection for thyroid cancer: A case report

INTRODUCTION: Postsurgical chylothorax is a rare complication of cervical dissection for thyroid cancer. We report that octreotide, a synthetic analog of somatostatin, is effective in treating chylothorax after thyroid carcinoma surgery. PRESENTATION OF CASE: The patient was a 48-year-old woman who...

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I publikationen:Int J Surg Case Rep
Huvudupphovsmän: Hayashibara, Noriaki, Ogawa, Toshihisa, Tsuji, Eiichi, Ishizuna, Kazuo
Materialtyp: Artigo
Språk:Inglês
Publicerad: Elsevier 2016
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Case Report
Länkar:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4802334/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26963261
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijscr.2016.02.025
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