Post esophagectomy diaphragmatic hernia: a case report of a rare cause of acute respiratory distress

BACKGROUND: Diaphragmatic hernia is frequent among the elderly and is usually associated with mild chronic digestive and respiratory symptoms. CASE PRESENTATION: An elderly post-esophagectomy male patient, in the early postoperative period of cardiac surgery, presented with acute respiratory distres...

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Autores principales: Lamontagne, Valérie, Lafrenière-Bessi, Valérie, Vieira, Arthur, Charbonneau, Éric, Ugalde, Paula A., Jacques, Frédéric
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6238405/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30442176
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13019-018-0802-x

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