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Radiology, Vol 168, 675-678, Copyright © 1988 by Radiological Society of North America

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Chronic traumatic diaphragmatic hernia: the significance of pleural effusion

JM Aronchick, DM Epstein, WB Gefter and WT Miller
Department of Radiology, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania 19104.

Five patients with chronic traumatic diaphragmatic hernia presented with symptoms of acute intestinal obstruction and unilateral pleural effusion. In each case, infarcted herniated abdominal structures were found at surgery. The presence of an ipsilateral pleural effusion is an important radiographic sign, which may indicate strangulation in patients with chronic traumatic diaphragmatic hernia.




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