Incidental Hiatal Hernia on Chest X-ray

Bowel in Chest: Type IV Hiatal Hernia.

doi:10.3121/cmr.2016.1332 A man, age 81 years, presented with frequent nausea and non-bloody vomiting for the past week, and a 3-day history of worsening epigastric abdominal pain with no flatus or bowel movements. He was tachycardic (120 bpm) and hypotensive (86/40 mm Hg). Upper abdomen was profoundly tender and distended. Laboratory results were significant for leukocytosis (20 x 103/uL; norm...

Hiatal hernia

61 years old known case of bronchial asthma, chronic pancreatitis, presented with postprandial epigastric campy abdominal pain and vomiting for one month no history of trauma. Initial evaluation revealed paraesophageal hernia. EGD finding is grade II esophagitis with modular mucosa and superficial ulceration, Distal part of the funds, body and the Antrim were rolled back into thoracic cavity. A...

Detection of hiatus hernia on 4 x 10 chest survey x-ray films.

Ambroise Pare32 anatomized ** the first two reported cases of diaphragmatic hernia, published Initially in 1564. Two centuries later, another French surgeon, Petit,33 described post-mortem findings in hiatus hernia.*** In 1882, Thoma,4’ a pathologist, collected 290 diaphragmatlc hernias from the literature: only three of them were para-esophageal. The latter type was thus believed to be very ra...

Mass on chest X-ray.

Accepted 30 October 1996 A 22-year-old man was admitted to hospital with a 14-kg weight-loss over the last 14 months, and an abnormal chest X-ray. Physical examination revealed signs of consolidation over the left hemithorax, fever, tachypnoea and tachycardia. Computed tomography (CT) was performed (figure 1) and one liter of bloody fluid was drained by thoracentesis. Abdominal CT scan was normal.

Incidental finding of hiatal hernia on (99m)Tc-sestamibi whole-body scan in thyroid cancer evaluation.