Mediastinal Seroma Post Laparoscopic Repair of Type IV Paraesophageal Hernia

Laparoscopic repair of paraesophageal hernia is safe and feasible and can provide comparable results for patients with type IV paraesophageal hernia. We report a rare case of mediastinal seroma in an 80-year-old gentleman who had a giant type IV paraesophageal hernia and was eventually admitted to o...

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Autor principal: Alnassar, Sami A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2011
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3133988/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21727737
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1319-3767.82585
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description Laparoscopic repair of paraesophageal hernia is safe and feasible and can provide comparable results for patients with type IV paraesophageal hernia. We report a rare case of mediastinal seroma in an 80-year-old gentleman who had a giant type IV paraesophageal hernia and was eventually admitted to our hospital for elective laparoscopic repair and recovered very well after surgery with resolution of the atelectatic lungs and air-fluid collection in his chest.
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spelling pubmed-31339882011-07-19 Mediastinal Seroma Post Laparoscopic Repair of Type IV Paraesophageal Hernia Alnassar, Sami A. Saudi J Gastroenterol Case Report Laparoscopic repair of paraesophageal hernia is safe and feasible and can provide comparable results for patients with type IV paraesophageal hernia. We report a rare case of mediastinal seroma in an 80-year-old gentleman who had a giant type IV paraesophageal hernia and was eventually admitted to our hospital for elective laparoscopic repair and recovered very well after surgery with resolution of the atelectatic lungs and air-fluid collection in his chest. Medknow Publications 2011 /pmc/articles/PMC3133988/ /pubmed/21727737 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/1319-3767.82585 Text en © Saudi Journal of Gastroenterology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title Mediastinal Seroma Post Laparoscopic Repair of Type IV Paraesophageal Hernia
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title_fullStr Mediastinal Seroma Post Laparoscopic Repair of Type IV Paraesophageal Hernia
title_full_unstemmed Mediastinal Seroma Post Laparoscopic Repair of Type IV Paraesophageal Hernia
title_short Mediastinal Seroma Post Laparoscopic Repair of Type IV Paraesophageal Hernia
title_sort mediastinal seroma post laparoscopic repair of type iv paraesophageal hernia
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3133988/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21727737
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