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    Literature search strategy

    Databases

    Date searched

    Version/files

    Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews – CDSR (Cochrane Library)

    24/11/2021

    Issue 10 of 12, October 2021

    Cochrane Central Database of Controlled Trials – CENTRAL (Cochrane Library)

    24/11/2021

    Issue 10 of 12, October 2021

    International HTA database

    24/11/2021

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    MEDLINE (Ovid)

    24/11/2021

    1946 to November 23, 2021

    MEDLINE In-Process (Ovid) & MEDLINE ePubs ahead of print (Ovid)

    24/11/2021

    1946 to November 23, 2021

    EMBASE (Ovid)

    24/11/2021

    1974 to 2021 November 23

    Embase Conference (Ovid)

    24/11/2021

    1974 to 2021 November 23

    Trial sources searched

    • Clinicaltrials.gov

    • ISRCTN

    • WHO International Clinical Trials Registry

    Websites searched

    • National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE)

    • NHS England

    • Food and Drug Administration (FDA) – MAUDE database

    • Australian Safety and Efficacy Register of New Interventional Procedures – Surgical (ASERNIP – S)

    • Australia and New Zealand Horizon Scanning Network (ANZHSN)

    • General internet search

    The following search strategy was used to identify papers in MEDLINE. A similar strategy was used to identify papers in other databases.

    MEDLINE search strategy

    Ovid MEDLINEI <1946 to November 23, 2021>

    1 Chylothorax/ 3138

    2 (Chylothoraces or chylothorax or chylopleura or cholothorax or chylopneumothora).tw. 3228

    3 Chyle/ 1424

    4 (chyle* or chylous).tw. 3154

    5 or/1-4 6820

    6 Thoracic Duct/ 4231

    7 ((((thoracic or lymph*) adj4 duct*) or Cisterna Chyli or Cisterna Chylus or intesin* lymph*) adj4 (leak* or lacerat* or injur* or ymphangi*)).tw. 371

    8 (leak* or lacerat* or injur* or ymphangi*).tw. 1085212

    9 6 and 8 493

    10 5 or 7 or 9 7023

    11 Embolization, Therapeutic/ 34273

    12 (emboli?ation or sclero-emboli?ation or scleroemboli?ation or embolotherap*).tw. 44177

    13 11 or 12 55164

    14 10 and 13 196

    15 Animals/ not Humans/ 4885087

    16 14 not 15 187