Five Cases of Congenital Chylothorax Treated by Intrapleural Minocycline

• Main Authors: Masatoshi Kaneko (Author), Yuji Kanai (Author), Hayato Go (Author), Takashi Imamura (Author), Nobuo Momoi (Author), Mitsuaki Hosoya (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Thieme Medical Publishers, Inc., 2012-11-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Minocycline pleurodesis was performed on five infants with congenital chylothorax in our institutions. They could not achieve sufficient efficacy though they had received other conservative therapies. Four of the five cases obtained reduction of pleural effusion using the minocycline pleurodesis. We...