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NOTABLE CASES Spontaneous chylothorax in a 2-year-old child
| العنوان: | NOTABLE CASES Spontaneous chylothorax in a 2-year-old child |
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| المؤلفون: | Manuel E Soto-martinez, Vanessa Clifford, Tom Clarnette, Sarath Ranganathan, R John Massie |
| المساهمون: | The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives |
| المصدر: | http://www.mja.com.au/public/issues/190_05_020309/sot10745_fm.pdf. |
| المجموعة: | CiteSeerX |
| الوصف: | A previously well 2-year-old girl presented with acute respiratory distress. After multiple investigations she was diagnosed with spontaneous chylothorax, attributed to strenuous vomiting. To our knowledge, this is the second reported case of spontaneous chylothorax occurring after the neonatal period. (MJA 2009; 190: 262-264) Clinical record A 2-year-old child presented to her local hospital with acute respiratory distress and a 2-day history of forceful vomiting and diarrhoea. She was afebrile, with no history of cough, coryza, trauma to the chest or spine, weight loss, or lethargy. She was born at term with no perinatal complications, and was growing along the 25th percentile for weight and height. She was not dysmorphic. On examination, the patient’s temperature was 36.8 ° C, heart rate was 154 beats/min, respiratory rate was 67 breaths/min, and blood pressure was 96/68 mmHg. Her chest was dull to percussion, with poor air entry over the right hemithorax. The remainder |
| نوع الوثيقة: | text |
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| اللغة: | English |
| Relation: | http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.183.9375; http://www.mja.com.au/public/issues/190_05_020309/sot10745_fm.pdf |
| الاتاحة: | http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.183.9375 http://www.mja.com.au/public/issues/190_05_020309/sot10745_fm.pdf |
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| رقم الانضمام: | edsbas.96F0472A |
| قاعدة البيانات: | BASE |
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