Abstract
Ascites occurs in patients with cancer and is usually associated with advanced-stage disease.1 Other etiologies for intra-abdominal fluid accumulation include liver disease,2 infectious causes, heart failure, and/or endocrine disorders.3 Post-surgical intra-peritoneal fluid accumulation may also develop as a result of operative trauma either to the urinary system or to the gastrointestinal tract.4 In addition, chylous ascites is reported as a rare complication after lymphadenectomy.5 Here we describe the accumulation of large volume non-chylous ascites following lymphadenectomy, that resolves spontaneously.
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