Post-traumatic chilothorax treated with thoracic duct closure guided by an indocyanine green-sensitive camera system during uniportal video-assisted thoracic surgery.

Chylothorax is caused by lymphatic chyle fluid leaking through the thoracic duct and accumulating in the pleural cavity. It is related to a thoracic duct injury or occlusion. Our 26-year-old patient sustained a traumatic injury to the thoracic duct.  We used a novel approach to treat this patient, that is, we identified the leaking chyle by combining uniportal video-assisted thoracic surgery with the injection of indocyanine green bilaterally in the inguinal lymph nodes.