Delayed Presentation of Posttraumatic Diaphragmatic Hernia Masquerading as Recurrent Acute Asthmatic Attack

Diaphragmatic hernia following blunt abdominal injury is extremely rare and often diagnosed late. Missed diagnosis is also common with this condition. We herein present a delayed presentation of diaphragmatic hernia following blunt abdominal injury that was initially misdiagnosed as recurrent acute...

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Autores principales: El-Yakub, A. I., Bello, U. M., Sheshe, A. A., Naaya, H. U.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi 2017
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5625800/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29056971
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/5037619
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author El-Yakub, A. I.
Bello, U. M.
Sheshe, A. A.
Naaya, H. U.
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description Diaphragmatic hernia following blunt abdominal injury is extremely rare and often diagnosed late. Missed diagnosis is also common with this condition. We herein present a delayed presentation of diaphragmatic hernia following blunt abdominal injury that was initially misdiagnosed as recurrent acute asthmatic attack due to repeated presentation with episodic difficulty in breathing.
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spelling pubmed-56258002017-10-22 Delayed Presentation of Posttraumatic Diaphragmatic Hernia Masquerading as Recurrent Acute Asthmatic Attack El-Yakub, A. I. Bello, U. M. Sheshe, A. A. Naaya, H. U. Case Rep Med Case Report Diaphragmatic hernia following blunt abdominal injury is extremely rare and often diagnosed late. Missed diagnosis is also common with this condition. We herein present a delayed presentation of diaphragmatic hernia following blunt abdominal injury that was initially misdiagnosed as recurrent acute asthmatic attack due to repeated presentation with episodic difficulty in breathing. Hindawi 2017 2017-09-19 /pmc/articles/PMC5625800/ /pubmed/29056971 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2017/5037619 Text en Copyright © 2017 A. I. El-Yakub 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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Delayed Presentation of Posttraumatic Diaphragmatic Hernia Masquerading as Recurrent Acute Asthmatic Attack
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title_short Delayed Presentation of Posttraumatic Diaphragmatic Hernia Masquerading as Recurrent Acute Asthmatic Attack
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5625800/
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