STRANGULATED DIAPHRAGMATIC HERNIA

1 February 1953

journal article
research article
Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in A.M.A. Archives of Surgery

Vol. 66 (2) , 155-166
https://doi.org/10.1001/archsurg.1953.01260030168004

Abstract

WHILE the frequency of strangulation in diaphragmatic hernias is not great, the complication is a fatal one demanding early surgical therapy. All physicians should be aware of this condition and consider it a possibility in any patient with lower thoracic or upper abdominal pain, the etiologic basis of which has not been clearly established. I wish to present my experience with four cases and in outline form summarize a group of cases¹collected from the literature since the report of Carter and Giuseffi²in 1948. These authors presented in detail the clinical symptomatology and the physical and x-ray findings in strangulated diaphragmatic hernia, and these findings will be omitted from this presentation. REPORT OF CASES Case 1 (Mrs. L. B., Seaside Hospital). —This case has been previously reported in detail.³The patient was a 32-year-old white woman. On Feb. 25, 1949, seven hours after a normal delivery, she began

Keywords

HERNIA, DIAPHRAGMATIC

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