Chylous fistula following lymphadenectomy in breast cancer
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Chylous fistula. Left axillary lymph node dissection. Conservative management. Medium chain triglyceride diet. Somatostatin.Abstract
Axillary lymph node dissection remains an integral part of surgical treatment in patients with invasive breast cancer and axillary lymph node metastases. Chylous leakage after axillary lymph node dissection is infrequent.
We report the case of a patient with an advanced local breast cancer that was subsidiary to surgery treatment after neoadjuvant chemotherapy. She had a postoperative chylous leakage; it was successfully treated conservatively in the postoperative course.
Chylous leakage an infrequent complication alters axillary lymph node dissection, which has a conservative management in most published studies.
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