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Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis
; 30(1): 31-2, 1998 Jan.
Artigo
em Inglês
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-9488828
RESUMO
Infection of a chylothorax is thought not to occur because chyle is inherently bacteriostatic. We report a case of an infected chylothorax occurring in an immunocompromised patient with pneumonia. To our knowledge, this is the first description of such a case.