Right-sided diaphragmatic rupture after blunt trauma. An unusual entity

نویسندگان

  • Ramon Vilallonga
  • Vicente Pastor
  • Laura Alvarez
  • Ramon Charco
  • Manel Armengol
  • Salvador Navarro
چکیده

Traumatic injuries of the diaphragm remain an entity of difficult diagnosis despite having been recognised early in the history of surgery, especially when it comes to blunt trauma and injuries of the right diaphragm. We report the case of a patient with blunt trauma with right diaphragmatic rupture that required urgent surgical treatment for hepatothorax and iatrogenic severe liver injury. Blunt trauma can cause substantial diaphragmatic rupture. It must have a high index of suspicion for diaphragmatic injury in patients, victims of vehicle collisions, mainly if they have suffered frontal impacts and/or side precipitates in patients with severe thoracoabdominal trauma. The diagnosis can be performed clinically and confirmation should be radiological. The general measures for the management of multiple trauma patients must be applied. Surgery at the time of diagnosis should restore continuity.

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دوره 6  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2011