RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Use of the Denver pleuroperitoneal shunt in the treatment of chylothorax secondary to filariasis.
JF Thorax
JO Thorax
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and British Thoracic Society
SP 144
OP 145
DO 10.1136/thx.46.2.144
VO 46
IS 2
A1 N D Kitchen
A1 D B Hocken
A1 R M Greenhalgh
A1 D K Kaplan
YR 1991
UL http://thorax.bmj.com/content/46/2/144.abstract
AB A 57 year old woman developed a chylothorax as a result of having had filariasis as a child. This failed to respond to conservative measures but was successfully managed by means of a Denver pleuroperitoneal shunt.