Treatment of Chylothorax in a Premature Infant Using Somatostatin

1 October 2003

journal article
case report
Published by Springer Nature in Journal of Perinatology

Vol. 23 (7) , 563-564
https://doi.org/10.1038/sj.jp.7210975

Abstract

We describe a case of spontaneous chylothorax in a premature infant successfully treated by octreotide after other forms of conservative therapy were not effective.

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