Delayed posttraumatic diaphragmatic hernia: case report and literature review.

Authors
Category Systematic review
JournalIndiana medicine : the journal of the Indiana State Medical Association
Year 1992
The case of a 36-year-old man with an unsuspected delayed posttraumatic diaphragmatic hernia is described. This entity often presents with vague clinical symptoms and non-specific radiographic findings long after the initiating trauma has been forgotten. Therefore, the preoperative diagnosis of this entity is notoriously difficult, but failure to make this diagnosis carries a high mortality rate. A high index of suspicion must be maintained.
Epistemonikos ID: 994187b0098446a3042a12a078f0a20aac047a46
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