Parker J M, Torrington K G, Phillips Y Y
Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, DC 20307-5001.
South Med J. 1994 Aug;87(8):860-2. doi: 10.1097/00007611-199408000-00026.
Chylothorax is a rare complication of sarcoidosis; only one well-documented case has been described previously. Before chylothorax is diagnosed in a patient with sarcoidosis, infection and malignancy need to be aggressively excluded as possible diagnoses. We report the case of a 34-year-old black woman with sarcoidosis confirmed by lung, pleural, and mediastinal lymph node biopsies whose clinical course was complicated by chylothorax. Oral corticosteroid treatment resulted in prompt resolution of the chylothorax.
乳糜胸是结节病的一种罕见并发症；此前仅描述过一例有充分记录的病例。在结节病患者被诊断为乳糜胸之前，需要积极排除感染和恶性肿瘤等可能的诊断。我们报告了一例34岁的黑人女性病例，经肺、胸膜和纵隔淋巴结活检确诊为结节病，其临床病程因乳糜胸而复杂化。口服皮质类固醇治疗使乳糜胸迅速消退。
