Hernia of Morgagni in the Elderly: A Case Report

Congenital diaphragmatic hernias are infrequently encountered in adult patients. A rare type of this hernia is the Morgagni’s hernia. Although they remain asymptomatic in a majority of patients, we present the case of an elderly patient who presented to us with abdominal pain and upper gastrointesti...

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Autores principales: Patial, Tushar, Negi, Sunil, Thakur, Vikrant
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2017
Materias:
General Surgery
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5630465/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29018646
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.1549
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description Congenital diaphragmatic hernias are infrequently encountered in adult patients. A rare type of this hernia is the Morgagni’s hernia. Although they remain asymptomatic in a majority of patients, we present the case of an elderly patient who presented to us with abdominal pain and upper gastrointestinal bleeding.
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spelling pubmed-56304652017-10-10 Hernia of Morgagni in the Elderly: A Case Report Patial, Tushar Negi, Sunil Thakur, Vikrant Cureus General Surgery Congenital diaphragmatic hernias are infrequently encountered in adult patients. A rare type of this hernia is the Morgagni’s hernia. Although they remain asymptomatic in a majority of patients, we present the case of an elderly patient who presented to us with abdominal pain and upper gastrointestinal bleeding. Cureus 2017-08-08 /pmc/articles/PMC5630465/ /pubmed/29018646 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.1549 Text en Copyright © 2017, Patial et al. 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 author and source are credited.
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title Hernia of Morgagni in the Elderly: A Case Report
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title_short Hernia of Morgagni in the Elderly: A Case Report
title_sort hernia of morgagni in the elderly: a case report
topic General Surgery
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5630465/
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