Five Cases of Congenital Chylothorax Treated by Intrapleural Minocycline

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...

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Main Authors: Masatoshi Kaneko, Yuji Kanai, Hayato Go, Takashi Imamura, Nobuo Momoi, Mitsuaki Hosoya
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Thieme Medical Publishers, Inc. 2012-11-01
Series:American Journal of Perinatology Reports
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Online Access:https://www.thieme-connect.de/products/ejournals/html/10.1055/s-0031-1300968