title: Primary chylopericardium treated with video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery.
abstract: Here, we report on a 30-year-old female with primary chylopericardium who successfully underwent thoracic duct clipping and partial pericardiectomy using video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS). Recently, a few cases of this disease have been treated utilizing VATS. This is a fully detailed description of the treatment of primary chylopericardium including a description of intraoperative findings and photographs obtained during the course of VATS.
authors.affiliation: Second Department of Surgery, Kagoshima University Faculty of Medicine, Kagoshima, Japan. Shun@khosp2.kufm.kagoshima-u.ac.jp
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Watanabe
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kariatsumari
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Sakasegawa
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Imagama
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Yotsumoto
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Sakata
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D010490:Pericardial Effusion / Q000601:surgery*; D010491:Pericardial Window Techniques; D010496:Pericardium / Q000601:surgery; D013897:Thoracic Duct / Q000601:surgery; D020775:Thoracic Surgery, Video-Assisted