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Ann R Coll Surg Engl
; 95(2): e27-9, 2013 Mar.
Artigo
em Inglês
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-23484976
RESUMO
Diaphragmatic rupture is a serious complication of thoracoabdominal trauma. The condition may be missed initially. We describe the clinical course of a patient who sustained blunt abdominal trauma in a car accident. His diaphragmatic injury passed unnoticed, to present two years later with left tension viscerothorax, a rarely reported and hardly recognised entity. Nasogastric tube insertion aborted the emergency situation and the hernia was repaired successfully in a semielective setting.