Sema Koçaşlı, Zehra Demircan
HERBAL PRODUCT USE BY THE CANCER PATIENTS IN BOTH THE PRE AND POST SURGERY PERIODS AND DURING CHEMOTHERAPY
African journal of traditional, complementary, and alternative medicines : AJTCAM
investigate safety effectiveness intranodal lymphangiography inl lymphatic embolization le management chylous ascites oncologic surgery retrospective review records patients underwent inl without le january 2017 june 2022 performed adult patients chylous ascites oncologic surgery referred interventional radiology failure conservative treatment included thirtynine patients underwent 55 procedures included 34 males 5 females data patient demographics procedural technique outcomes followup collected descriptive statistics used illustrate technical success clinical success adverse events univariate logistic regression analysis performed evaluate factors predicting clinical success inl technically successful 54 55 procedures 98 95 confidence interval ci 90100 lymphatic leak identified 40 procedures le attempted 36 le technically successful 33 36 procedures 92 95 ci 7898 clinical success defined resolution ascites need peritoneovenous shunt placement additional surgery achieved 22 39 patients 56 95 ci 4072 clinical success achieved 18 patients 1 procedure patients required repeat procedures less likely achieve clinical success odds ratio 016 95 ci 004066 p 012 four grade 1 procedural adverse events recorded inl without le safe minimally invasive tool help patients chylous ascites oncologic surgery failed conservative treatment avoid invasive interventions