Chylous ascites in laparoscopic renal surgery: Where do we stand?

Table 1 Previously reported cases of chylous ascites after laparoscopoic nephrectomy

Ref.	Type of laparoscopic nephrectomy	Success rate of conservative treatment (%)	Interventional treatment
Original articles
Jairath et al[11]	Radical, donor, simple	67.7 (6/9)	Surgery
Tiong et al[12]	Donor	50 (5/10)	Surgery
Wan et al[44]	Partial	100 (5/5)
Capocasale et al[9]	Donor	100 (8/8)
He et al[31]	Donor	0 (0/1)	Surgery
Kim et al[3]	Radical, donor, simple, partial, nephroureterectomy	96.9 (31/32)	Surgery
Breda et al[8]	Donor	100 (2/2)
Wadström[43]	Donor	0 (0/1)	Surgery
Ramani et al[39]	Donor	0 (0/1)	Surgery
Wu et al[45]	Donor	100 (1/1)
Seo et al[46]	Donor	100 (2/2)
Case reports
Monge Mirallas et al[35]	Radical	100 (1/1)
Itou et al[65]	Radical	0 (0/1)	Percutaneous obliteration
Fariña et al[29]	Radical	100 (1/1)
Nishizawa et al[38]	Radical	0 (0/1)	Surgery
Meulen et al[33]	Donor	100 (1/1)
Gagliano et al[30]	Donor	100 (1/1)
Sinha et al[41]	Donor	0 (0/1)	Surgery
Aerts et al[26]	Donor	0 (0/1)	Surgery
Caumartin et al[28]	Donor	0 (0/1)	Surgery
Bachmann et al[27]	Donor	100 (1/1)
Sharma et al[40]	Donor	100 (1/1)
Molina et al[34]	Donor	0 (0/1)	Surgery
Shafizadeh et al[13]	Donor	100 (1/1)
von Rundstedt et al[42]	Nephroureterectomy	100 (1/1)
Negoro et al[37]	Nephroureterectomy	50 (1/2)	Sclerotherapy
Jensen et al[32]	Simple	100 (1/1)