Erschienen in:
05.04.2017 | Case Report
CT-Guided Intranodal Lymphangiography for Postoperative Chylous Ascites
verfasst von:
Masanori Hirata, Atsuo Shimizu, Shoko Abe, Azusa Ichinose, Akira Sugiyama, Yusuke Tanino, Suguru Watanabe, Ryota Nakano, Yoshihiko Kato, Toshiyuki Miyahara, Yasuhiro Sumi, Hiroshi Nakano
Erschienen in:
CardioVascular and Interventional Radiology
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Ausgabe 8/2017
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Abstract
The utility and minimal invasiveness of ultrasound-guided intranodal lymphangiography have already been reported by several researchers. Although ultrasound-guided intranodal lymphangiography is known to be not technically difficult in general, a patient’s edematous groin due to hypoalbuminemia resulting from chylous ascites made it too challenging to detect and prick the lymph nodes precisely. This report describes a 71-year-old female with refractory chylous ascites due to an operation for an extrahepatic bile duct cancer, who was successfully treated by computed tomography (CT)-guided intranodal lymphangiography. After switching from ultrasound- to CT-guided lymphangiography, the procedure was successfully performed, and the refractory chylous ascites was treated.