At 13:21 1-11-00 -0500, you wrote:
>What is chylothorax? Kathleen
>

Chylothorax is accumulated opalescent lipidcontaining fluid in the
pleuracavity caused by injury or engorgement of the ductus thoracicus.

At least, this is what my medical textbook says it is ;-D , maybe one of
the other lactnetters has a better way of explaining than I have but you
can't say that I didn't try..........

Regards,

Renate Rietveld, IBCLC


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