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Transient thoracic duct obstruction in a patient with thoracic outlet syndrome

Author(s) -

Giulio Melloni,

Michele Giovanardi,

Angela De Gaspari,

Piero Zannini

Publication year - 2006

Publication title -

european journal of cardio-thoracic surgery

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.303

H-Index - 133

eISSN - 1873-734X

pISSN - 1010-7940

DOI - 10.1016/j.ejcts.2006.06.026

Subject(s) - medicine , thoracic duct , mediastinum , surgery , radiology , lymph , psychiatry

Fig. 2. A MRI revealed a lymphoedema of the neck and mediastinum (arrow) (A, STIR image) that spontaneously disappeared in a few days. A MRI performed after a week was completely normal (B, T2-weighted image). The patient was conservatively treated. A physiotherapy program was started and she was encouraged to sleep with arms by the side. At the time of writing, 1 year after the event, the patient had experienced no further episode of cervical oedema.

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