Acute post-traumatic tension gastrothorax, a tension pneumothorax-like injury

Diaphragmatic rupture is an uncommon and frequently missed complication in blunt thoraco-abdominal trauma. Symptoms usually become apparent in a delayed phase, up to years after the trauma. An acute presentation is extremely rare and acute tension gastrothorax in which trapping of air in the intrathoracic stomach causes mediastinal shift and lung compression, as in tension pneumothorax, is exceptional. We only found two cases in the literature. We present here two other cases from our practice, with a review on the literature on post-traumatic diaphragmatic hernias.

Medienart:

Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2003

Erschienen:

2003

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:10

Enthalten in:

European journal of emergency medicine : official journal of the European Society for Emergency Medicine - 10(2003), 4 vom: 23. Dez., Seite 344-6

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Mortelmans, Luc J M [VerfasserIn]
Jutten, Guido C Y [VerfasserIn]
Coene, Luc [VerfasserIn]

Themen:

Case Reports
Journal Article

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Date Completed 23.09.2004

Date Revised 08.11.2019

published: Print

Citation Status MEDLINE

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM143897780