Right Hemi-Diaphragmatic Rupture: An Injury Missed or Masked?

Right sided traumatic diaphragmatic rupture in children is uncommon and may escape early detection. Missed injuries are associated with high mortality and morbidity due to incarceration and strangulation of abdominal viscera. We report a 15-month-old child with blunt trauma chest and abdomen, who pr...

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Autores principales: Joshi, Manoj, Dhua, Anjan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: EL-MED-Pub 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4448101/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26064808
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description Right sided traumatic diaphragmatic rupture in children is uncommon and may escape early detection. Missed injuries are associated with high mortality and morbidity due to incarceration and strangulation of abdominal viscera. We report a 15-month-old child with blunt trauma chest and abdomen, who presented with bilateral hemothoraces and liver laceration seven days after the incident. Diagnosis of right diaphragmatic rupture was confirmed after another week. The surgical repair of diaphragmatic rupture was undertaken successfully.
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spelling pubmed-44481012015-06-10 Right Hemi-Diaphragmatic Rupture: An Injury Missed or Masked? Joshi, Manoj Dhua, Anjan APSP J Case Rep Case Report Right sided traumatic diaphragmatic rupture in children is uncommon and may escape early detection. Missed injuries are associated with high mortality and morbidity due to incarceration and strangulation of abdominal viscera. We report a 15-month-old child with blunt trauma chest and abdomen, who presented with bilateral hemothoraces and liver laceration seven days after the incident. Diagnosis of right diaphragmatic rupture was confirmed after another week. The surgical repair of diaphragmatic rupture was undertaken successfully. EL-MED-Pub 2015-05-01 /pmc/articles/PMC4448101/ /pubmed/26064808 Text en Copyright © 2015 AJCR http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ 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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