A RARE CASE OF CHYLOTHORAX COMPLICATING ENDOBRONCHIAL TUBERCULOSIS
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of the thoracic duct. Chylothorax may be caused by cardiac surgery, trauma, malignant tumors,
congenital malformations, lymphangio-leiomyomatosis, sarcoidosis, hepatic cirrhosis and infection
including tuberculosis. Chylothorax as the first manifestation of tuberculosis is rarely reported. Endobronchial
tuberculosis is defined as tuberculosis of the tracheobronchial tree and most often a
complication of primary pulmonary tuberculosis. The concomitant appearance of chylothorax and
endobronchial tuberculosis in the same patient was reported once by Cakir et al. Here, we report a
similar case of endobronchial tuberculosis with chylothorax in a 15 year old boy.
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