Chylothorax in chronic lymphocytic leuke
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Clinton H. Doerr; Bruce A. Staats; Svetomir N. Markovic
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Article
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2002
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) is rarely complicated by chylothorax: we present a 93-year-old woman with CLL who developed recurrent pleural effusions that were ultimately found to be chylous in nature. Despite eight repeated thoracenteses, she continued to experience re-accumulation of fluid, a