Pneumothorax Causing Pneumoperitoneum: Role of Surgical Intervention

The most common cause of a pneumoperitoneum is a perforation of a hollow viscus and the treatment is an exploratory laparotomy; nevertheless, not all pneumoperitoneums are due to a perforation and not all of them need surgical intervention. We hereby present a case of pneumoperitoneum due to a diaph...

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Autores principales: Duarte, Fernanda, Wentling, Jessica, Anjum, Humayun, Varon, Joseph, Surani, Salim
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2016
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5021469/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27656300
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/4146080
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author Duarte, Fernanda
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Anjum, Humayun
Varon, Joseph
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description The most common cause of a pneumoperitoneum is a perforation of a hollow viscus and the treatment is an exploratory laparotomy; nevertheless, not all pneumoperitoneums are due to a perforation and not all of them need surgical intervention. We hereby present a case of pneumoperitoneum due to a diaphragmatic defect, which allowed air from a pneumothorax to escape through the diaphragmatic hernia into the abdominal cavity.
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spelling pubmed-50214692016-09-21 Pneumothorax Causing Pneumoperitoneum: Role of Surgical Intervention Duarte, Fernanda Wentling, Jessica Anjum, Humayun Varon, Joseph Surani, Salim Case Rep Crit Care Case Report The most common cause of a pneumoperitoneum is a perforation of a hollow viscus and the treatment is an exploratory laparotomy; nevertheless, not all pneumoperitoneums are due to a perforation and not all of them need surgical intervention. We hereby present a case of pneumoperitoneum due to a diaphragmatic defect, which allowed air from a pneumothorax to escape through the diaphragmatic hernia into the abdominal cavity. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2016 2016-08-30 /pmc/articles/PMC5021469/ /pubmed/27656300 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/4146080 Text en Copyright © 2016 Fernanda Duarte et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under 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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