Symptomatic Morgagni's hernia in an elderly patient

Hernia of Morgagni occurs through an anterior defect in the diaphragm. Symptoms of these hernias are attributable to the herniated viscera. In our case, there was partial obstruction due to herniation of the distal stomach and pylorus into the right hemithorax that was reduced surgically through a r...

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Autores principales: Rai, Santosh PV, Kamath, Madhav, Shetty, Ashok, Shenoy, Suresh, Kumar, Ashvini
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2010
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2823152/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20165730
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-2700.58654
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author Rai, Santosh PV
Kamath, Madhav
Shetty, Ashok
Shenoy, Suresh
Kumar, Ashvini
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description Hernia of Morgagni occurs through an anterior defect in the diaphragm. Symptoms of these hernias are attributable to the herniated viscera. In our case, there was partial obstruction due to herniation of the distal stomach and pylorus into the right hemithorax that was reduced surgically through a right thoracolapaorotomy. Of special emphasis are the various modalities used to diagnose this condition in our case.
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spelling pubmed-28231522010-02-17 Symptomatic Morgagni's hernia in an elderly patient Rai, Santosh PV Kamath, Madhav Shetty, Ashok Shenoy, Suresh Kumar, Ashvini J Emerg Trauma Shock Case Report Hernia of Morgagni occurs through an anterior defect in the diaphragm. Symptoms of these hernias are attributable to the herniated viscera. In our case, there was partial obstruction due to herniation of the distal stomach and pylorus into the right hemithorax that was reduced surgically through a right thoracolapaorotomy. Of special emphasis are the various modalities used to diagnose this condition in our case. Medknow Publications 2010 /pmc/articles/PMC2823152/ /pubmed/20165730 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-2700.58654 Text en © Journal of Emergencies, Trauma, and Shock http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Rai, Santosh PV
Kamath, Madhav
Shetty, Ashok
Shenoy, Suresh
Kumar, Ashvini
Symptomatic Morgagni's hernia in an elderly patient
title Symptomatic Morgagni's hernia in an elderly patient
title_full Symptomatic Morgagni's hernia in an elderly patient
title_fullStr Symptomatic Morgagni's hernia in an elderly patient
title_full_unstemmed Symptomatic Morgagni's hernia in an elderly patient
title_short Symptomatic Morgagni's hernia in an elderly patient
title_sort symptomatic morgagni's hernia in an elderly patient
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2823152/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-2700.58654
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