A rare Bochdalek hernia in an adult: a case report

BACKGROUND: Symptomatic Bochdalek hernias are found mainly in infants in respiratory distress and occur rarely in adults. CASE PRESENTATION: We report a rare case of Bochdalek hernia associated with developmental abnormalities in an adult who exhibited acute chest pain and dyspnea on exertion. CONCL...

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Autores principales: Gu, Yi-Min, Li, Xiao-Yang, Wang, Wen-Ping, Chen, Long-Qi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2021
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8507328/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34641847
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12893-021-01357-2
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description BACKGROUND: Symptomatic Bochdalek hernias are found mainly in infants in respiratory distress and occur rarely in adults. CASE PRESENTATION: We report a rare case of Bochdalek hernia associated with developmental abnormalities in an adult who exhibited acute chest pain and dyspnea on exertion. CONCLUSIONS: This case highlights the importance of the differential diagnosis of acute left-sided chest pain and antenatal examination.
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spelling pubmed-85073282021-10-20 A rare Bochdalek hernia in an adult: a case report Gu, Yi-Min Li, Xiao-Yang Wang, Wen-Ping Chen, Long-Qi BMC Surg Case Report BACKGROUND: Symptomatic Bochdalek hernias are found mainly in infants in respiratory distress and occur rarely in adults. CASE PRESENTATION: We report a rare case of Bochdalek hernia associated with developmental abnormalities in an adult who exhibited acute chest pain and dyspnea on exertion. CONCLUSIONS: This case highlights the importance of the differential diagnosis of acute left-sided chest pain and antenatal examination. BioMed Central 2021-10-12 /pmc/articles/PMC8507328/ /pubmed/34641847 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12893-021-01357-2 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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