Thoracic Duct Fistula After Thyroid Cancer Surgery: Towards a New Treatment?

Overview

Journal Case Rep Oncol

Publisher Karger

Specialty Oncology

Date 2011 Jul 8

PMID 21734879

Citations 11

Authors

Jean-Francois Rodier

Pierre-Philippe Volkmar

Frederic Bodin

Severine Frigo

Sait Ciftci

Christian Dahlet

Affiliations

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Abstract

The use of somatostatin analogs is a new conservative therapeutic approach for the treatment of chyle fistulas developing after thyroid cancer surgery. The combination therapy with a total parenteral nutrition should avoid the high morbidity of a re-intervention with an uncertain outcome. This promising trend is supported by the present case report of a chyle leak occurring after total thyroidectomy with central and lateral neck dissection for a papillary carcinoma, which was treated successfully without immediate or distant sequelae.

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