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Tension gastrothorax: acute life-threatening manifestation of late onset congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH) in children

Tension gastrothorax in children is a life-threatening condition and presents dramatically with acute and severe respiratory distress. It develops when an intra-thoracic stomach herniated through a diaphragmatic defect is massively distended by trapped air and/or fluid causing mediastinal displaceme...

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Autores principales: Næss, Pål Aksel, Wiborg, Joachim, Kjellevold, Kristin, Gaarder, Christine
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4477604/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26104782
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13049-015-0129-8