Marques Santos, Sofia and Oliveira, Eunice and Ferreira Monteiro, Nuno and Manuela Soares, Maria and Mello e Silva, Alberto (2016) Large Morgagni Hernia in an Adult Patient. European Journal of Case Reports in Internal Medicine, 3 (1). pp. 1-3. ISSN 2284-2594
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Abstract
A 70-year-old woman presented to the emergency department with symptoms of a lower respiratory infection. A chest x-ray showed enlargement of the mediastinal space. The patient was admitted with a respiratory tract infection and started on antibiotic treatment. A computed tomography (CT) scan of the thorax revealed a large diaphragmatic hernia with stomach, large intestine and caudal pancreas lodged in the thoracic cavity. After the antibiotic treatment, the patient became asymptomatic and surgery repair was declined. Morgagni hernia is an uncommon type of congenital diaphragmatic hernia, which may be asymptomatic until late in life or may be present acutely with life threatening conditions.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | L'articolo è stato pubblicato nei Latest online nel 2015 |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Morgagni hernia; diaphragmatic hernia |
| Subjects: | 600 Tecnologia - Scienze applicate > 610 Medicina e salute (Classificare qui la tecnologia dei servizi medici) > 616 Malattie (classificare qui la Clinica medica, la medicina basata sull'evidenza, la Medicina interna, la Medicina sperimentale) |
| Depositing User: | Chiara D'Arpa |
| Date Deposited: | 19 Sep 2016 15:39 |
| Last Modified: | 19 Sep 2016 15:39 |
| URI: | http://eprints.bice.rm.cnr.it/id/eprint/15104 |
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