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CASE PRESENTATION: A 69-year-old man consulted for a 3-day history of fever, wet cough, and yellow-green phlegm. He denied having any dyspnea, chest pain, hemoptysis, swallowing disorders, choke, chills, asthenia, anorexia, or weight loss. He reported a continuous dry cough and three episodes of pneumonia in the past 4 years. He was a nonsmoker, without any other personal or familial medical history. He had no known professional exposure. He was born and lived in Vietnam but had no known contact with TB in his family or workplace. He was never imprisoned or homeless and did never travel abroad.
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Cough/complications , Lung/diagnostic imaging , Osteochondrodysplasias/complications , Pneumonia/complications , Tracheal Diseases/complications , Aged , Biopsy , Bronchoscopy , Chronic Disease , Cough/diagnosis , Diagnosis, Differential , Humans , Male , Osteochondrodysplasias/diagnosis , Pneumonia/diagnosis , Radiography, Thoracic , Tomography, X-Ray Computed , Tracheal Diseases/diagnosisABSTRACT
Postoperative hepatic lymphorrhea is extremely rare and there is no standard treatment for this condition. We report the cases of 3 men, 32-, 56-, and 37-year-old, with postoperative hepatic lymphorrhea, which was refractory to conservative treatment. Transhepatic lymphangiography allowed locating the lymphatic leak and treating it with hepatic lymphatic vessels injection of foam sclerotic agent. This technique seems efficient and safe.
