The leak of the lymphatic fluid can lead to in devastating consequences that can jeopardies life due to lose of the important nutrients coagulation and immune factors.
The lymphatic leaks include: chylothorax, chylopericardium, chylous ascities, chylouria, chyloptesis, lymphocele, lymphorria.
The causes of the chylous leaks can be broadly defined as traumatic-due to direct and indirect physical insult, such as surgery, or blunt trauma, and non- traumatic that occur without recent physical injury.