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Acute presentation of congenital diaphragmatic hernia requiring damage control laparotomy in an adult patient

Congenital diaphragmatic hernias constitute an infrequent but potentially serious presentation of bowel obstruction in the adult patient. Herein, we present a rare case of an adult patient with strangulation of colon within a Morgagni’s hernia where timely recognition and intervention were life-savi...

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Autores principales: He, Sarah, Sade, Irony, Lombardo, Gary, Prabhakaran, Kartik
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5534014/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28775839
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jscr/rjx144