PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Jagadeesh Menon
AU  - Vybhav Venkatesh
AU  - Balamurugan Thirunavukkarasu
AU  - Sadhna Bhasin Lal
TI  - Hennekam syndrome: an uncommon cause of chylous ascites and intestinal lymphangiectasia in the tropics
AID  - 10.1136/bcr-2019-229419
DP  - 2019 Jul 01
TA  - BMJ Case Reports
PG  - e229419
VI  - 12
IP  - 7
4099  - http://casereports.bmj.com/content/12/7/e229419.short
4100  - http://casereports.bmj.com/content/12/7/e229419.full
SO  - BMJ Case Reports2019 Jul 01; 12
AB  - Paediatric chylous ascites in tropics is commonly caused by infections and trauma. We describe the clinical characteristics of an uncommon inherited cause of chylous ascites, Hennekam syndrome, treated by nutritional modification.