摘要
As we expected, this issue of the journal published an original article on causes and clinical manifestations of chylothorax in children in China,1 which provides data from a large children's hospital covering 107 cases with chylothorax seen during the recent 10 years. The authors found that nearly 60％ of the cases had primary chylothorax (PC) or neonatal chylothorax (NC) and about 40％ had chylothorax secondary to surgeries (SC). Another important finding is that the conservative treatment of the patients with chylothorax resulted in pretty good clinical outcomes. This is an extremely good and applaudable start of the expected comprehensive studies on this previously less emphasized disease entity.
