Chylothorax in infancy is an extremely rare condition and a search of the literature has only revealed 13 cases under the age of one year, of which five occurred in the first four weeks of life (Table Only two of these infants survived, and therefore the publication of a further case of a child four days old who recovered spontaneously after two aspirations, seems justified.
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J. Sakula (1950) studied this question.