Diagnosis and treatment progress of postoperative abdominal chyle leakage / 国际外科学杂志

ABSTRACT

Chylous fistula after abdominal operation is a rare complication which easily lead to malnutrition or immunosuppression and even cause death due to constant loss protein and lymphocytes.The therapeutics of the chylous fistula after abdominal operation includes conservative treatment,surgery and special management modalities at present.The most of the patient can be cured by non-surgical treatment,which should be considered as the first treatment regimen,surgery should be choosen if it failed.Only the obove methads have failed can we take the special treatments cound be taken into consideration.In this paper,new progress in diagnosis and therapeutics of the chylous fistula after abdominal operation will be reviewed.