title: A 42-Year-Old Woman With Abnormal Chest CT Scan and Chylous Ascites.
abstract: A 42-year-old white woman presented to the pulmonary clinic for evaluation of abnormal chest imaging. Twenty years prior to presentation, she was noted to have an abnormal chest radiograph during a routine preemployment evaluation. A subsequent bronchoscopy was nondiagnostic. She was followed up with annual imaging, which demonstrated little or no progression of her disease. She remained symptom free throughout this period. A year before her visit to the pulmonary clinic, she developed abdominal discomfort and was found to have ascites. Subsequently, she underwent three paracenteses with analysis revealing chylous fluid. She was a nonsmoker without a history of exposures or travel.
authors.affiliation: Norton Thoracic Institute, St. Joseph's Hospital and Medical Center, Phoenix, AZ.
authors.forename: Tanmay S
authors.initials: TS
authors.lastname: Panchabhai
authors.affiliation: Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Respiratory Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland OH.
authors.forename: Debabrata
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Bandyopadhyay
authors.affiliation: Department of Thoracic Radiology, Imaging Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland OH.
authors.forename: Ruchi
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Yadav
authors.affiliation: Department of Pulmonary Pathology, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland OH.
authors.forename: Andrea V
authors.initials: AV
authors.lastname: Arrossi
authors.affiliation: Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Respiratory Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland OH.
authors.forename: Atul C
authors.initials: AC
authors.lastname: Mehta
authors.affiliation: Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Louis Stokes Cleveland Department of Veterans Affair Medical Center, Cleveland OH. Electronic address: jihane.faress@va.gov.
authors.forename: Jihane A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Faress
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002915:Chylous Ascites / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000628:therapy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008171:Lung Diseases / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000628:therapy; D008200:Lymphangiectasis / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000628:therapy; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed