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Traumatic right diaphragmatic rupture with hepatothorax in Ghana: two rare cases

A rare case series of traumatic right diaphragmatic rupture with hepatothorax in Ghana is reported. The first case involved a middle-aged man who sustained a penetrating chest injury following an unprovoked attack by a wild bull. The second case was a young woman who sustained a blunt chest injury a...

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Autores principales: Okyere, Isaac, Okyere, Perditer, Glover, Paul Sedem Komla
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The African Field Epidemiology Network 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6814919/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31692849
http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2019.33.256.17061
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description A rare case series of traumatic right diaphragmatic rupture with hepatothorax in Ghana is reported. The first case involved a middle-aged man who sustained a penetrating chest injury following an unprovoked attack by a wild bull. The second case was a young woman who sustained a blunt chest injury after being knocked down by a moving vehicle whiles crossing the road. Both presented with ruptured right diaphgramatic rupture and had to undergo repair through thoracotomy after stabilization and the two had been well one year after surgery without any complications or sequelae.
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spelling pubmed-68149192019-11-05 Traumatic right diaphragmatic rupture with hepatothorax in Ghana: two rare cases Okyere, Isaac Okyere, Perditer Glover, Paul Sedem Komla Pan Afr Med J Case Report A rare case series of traumatic right diaphragmatic rupture with hepatothorax in Ghana is reported. The first case involved a middle-aged man who sustained a penetrating chest injury following an unprovoked attack by a wild bull. The second case was a young woman who sustained a blunt chest injury after being knocked down by a moving vehicle whiles crossing the road. Both presented with ruptured right diaphgramatic rupture and had to undergo repair through thoracotomy after stabilization and the two had been well one year after surgery without any complications or sequelae. The African Field Epidemiology Network 2019-07-26 /pmc/articles/PMC6814919/ /pubmed/31692849 http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2019.33.256.17061 Text en © Isaac Okyere et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ The Pan African Medical Journal - ISSN 1937-8688. 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 work is properly cited.
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Traumatic right diaphragmatic rupture with hepatothorax in Ghana: two rare cases
title Traumatic right diaphragmatic rupture with hepatothorax in Ghana: two rare cases
title_full Traumatic right diaphragmatic rupture with hepatothorax in Ghana: two rare cases
title_fullStr Traumatic right diaphragmatic rupture with hepatothorax in Ghana: two rare cases
title_full_unstemmed Traumatic right diaphragmatic rupture with hepatothorax in Ghana: two rare cases
title_short Traumatic right diaphragmatic rupture with hepatothorax in Ghana: two rare cases
title_sort traumatic right diaphragmatic rupture with hepatothorax in ghana: two rare cases
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6814919/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31692849
http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2019.33.256.17061
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