TY - JOUR
T1 - Tension pneumothorax as a presentation of traumatic diaphragmatic hernia
AU - Mattei, Peter
AU - Wiebke, Eric
AU - Lipsett, Pamela
PY - 1992/8
Y1 - 1992/8
N2 - Spontaneous pneumothorax and tension pneumothorax are being increasingly recognized as complications of traumatic diaphragmatic hernia, particularly when presentation is delayed. This underscores the importance of suspecting the diagnosis of diaphragmatic hernia in patients with a recent or remote history of blunt or penetrating trauma to the chest or abdomen and an unusual or an atypical thoracic process. Once the diagnosis is suspected, confirmation with contrast studies, CT, or MRI should be obtained and surgical repair undertaken without delay.
AB - Spontaneous pneumothorax and tension pneumothorax are being increasingly recognized as complications of traumatic diaphragmatic hernia, particularly when presentation is delayed. This underscores the importance of suspecting the diagnosis of diaphragmatic hernia in patients with a recent or remote history of blunt or penetrating trauma to the chest or abdomen and an unusual or an atypical thoracic process. Once the diagnosis is suspected, confirmation with contrast studies, CT, or MRI should be obtained and surgical repair undertaken without delay.
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U2 - 10.1097/00007611-199208000-00013
DO - 10.1097/00007611-199208000-00013
M3 - Article
C2 - 1502629
AN - SCOPUS:0026646531
SN - 0038-4348
VL - 85
SP - 847
EP - 850
JO - Southern medical journal
JF - Southern medical journal
IS - 8
ER -