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Chylothorax post thoracoscopic surgery for an anterior mediastinal tumor

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Chylothorax after anterior mediastinal surgery is rare. We treated a 39-year-old woman who presented with progressive dyspnea over 6 months. Chest computed tomography revealed a 12-cm round mass in the right anterior mediastinum. She underwent video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery for successful excision of the tumor; however, the surgery was complicated by the development of chylothorax. It was treated surgically with no recurrence of the tumor and/or chylothorax for 2 years. Chylothorax should be recognized as a postsurgical complication of anterior mediastinal tumors.

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  1. Department of Thoracic Surgery, Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, 1-5-45 Yushima, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-8519, Japan

    Hironori Ishibashi, Yuya Ishikawa, Ayaka Asakawa, Sachiko Imai, Masashi Kobayashi & Kenichi Okubo

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Ishibashi, H., Ishikawa, Y., Asakawa, A. et al. Chylothorax post thoracoscopic surgery for an anterior mediastinal tumor. Gen Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 66, 372–375 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11748-017-0865-y

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