Bowel sounds in the chest: An uncommon presentation of adult hernia

We report a case of a 65-year-old male, who presented with respiratory complaints of cough and breathlessness, managed initially as respiratory tract infection. However, the patient did not improve, and a thorough examination and imaging revealed herniation of a gut segment into the thorax. The pati...

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Autores principales: Majeed, Tahir, Koul, Ajaz, Khan, Talib, Hassan, Sahil
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2018
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6140309/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30228957
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rmcr.2018.09.001
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description We report a case of a 65-year-old male, who presented with respiratory complaints of cough and breathlessness, managed initially as respiratory tract infection. However, the patient did not improve, and a thorough examination and imaging revealed herniation of a gut segment into the thorax. The patient was operated and respiratory symptoms improved dramatically.
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spelling pubmed-61403092018-09-18 Bowel sounds in the chest: An uncommon presentation of adult hernia Majeed, Tahir Koul, Ajaz Khan, Talib Hassan, Sahil Respir Med Case Rep Case Report We report a case of a 65-year-old male, who presented with respiratory complaints of cough and breathlessness, managed initially as respiratory tract infection. However, the patient did not improve, and a thorough examination and imaging revealed herniation of a gut segment into the thorax. The patient was operated and respiratory symptoms improved dramatically. Elsevier 2018-09-10 /pmc/articles/PMC6140309/ /pubmed/30228957 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rmcr.2018.09.001 Text en © 2018 Published by Elsevier Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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Bowel sounds in the chest: An uncommon presentation of adult hernia
title Bowel sounds in the chest: An uncommon presentation of adult hernia
title_full Bowel sounds in the chest: An uncommon presentation of adult hernia
title_fullStr Bowel sounds in the chest: An uncommon presentation of adult hernia
title_full_unstemmed Bowel sounds in the chest: An uncommon presentation of adult hernia
title_short Bowel sounds in the chest: An uncommon presentation of adult hernia
title_sort bowel sounds in the chest: an uncommon presentation of adult hernia
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6140309/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30228957
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rmcr.2018.09.001
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