Description of Chyluria

CHYLURIA (chyle in the urine) occurs so infrequently that an adequate description is not readily obtained in a standard textbook. Aside from a recent article by Johnston,1 reports in the literature have indeed been relatively rare.Surprisingly enough the entity has been known for over three hundred years. Two varieties are described: tropical, or parasitic; and nontropical, or nonparasitic. Tropical chyluria is caused by Filaria sanguinis-hominis (Wuchereria bancrofti). They were first found by Demarquay in 1863. Wucherer, in 1866, noted their presence in chylous urine, and Bancroft, in 1877, recovered the adult female worm from a lymphatic abscess. The . . .