DIAPHRAGMATIC HERNIA IN A CHILD, AGED ONE YEAR
- 14 March 1931
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA)
- Vol. 96 (11) , 847-848
- https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.1931.02720370025007
Abstract
The increasing number of cases of diaphragmatic hernia reported in recent literature suggests unusual vigilance in detecting this deformity. Nevertheless, its appearance in children under 10 years of age is still considered rare. Apparently this is more indicative of the difficulties of recognition than of the infrequency of occurrence. However, Dodds and Flew1roentgenographed every child born in the obstetric hospital in London over a period of eighteen months and found only one case of congenital diaphragmatic hernia in 800 cases, and only one case in 200 postmortem examinations. In Greenwald and Steiner's2series of eighty-two cases in children aged up to 10 years, (1912-1928) only twenty-five were recognized during life. Eleven were operated on; six patients died after operation. Of the five that recovered, two had gastro-enterostomy because in each case it was found impossible to reduce the stomach. Parenthetically, gastro-enterostomy can serve no useful purpose whenKeywords
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