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SUBMITTER: Chlapoutakis S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7525847 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Chlapoutakis Serafeim S Vassileiadis Vassileios V
Indian journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery 20180323 4
A 27-year-old male had an abdominal violation in a prison 14 years before the display of his symptoms and was misdiagnosed as massive haemothorax. The patient remained asymptomatic for 14 years and his symptoms were only a mild dyspnoea and mild dysphagia. This patient had a huge chronic postdiaphragmatic hernia with most of the abdominal organs in the left hemithorax. A left thoracotomy was performed and a mesh was used to close the huge posttraumatic diaphragmatic hernia (diameter of 15 cm), a ...[more]