Diaphragmatic eventration permanently raises all or part of the hemidiaphragm, thus impairing respiratory function by compressing the ipsilateral lung and mediastinum. A 55-year-old woman had cT1N0M0 lung adenocarcinoma in the right lower lobe and diaphragmatic eventration in the left hemithorax. We repaired the eventration to recover respiratory function, then performed a radical lobectomy wit...

new syndrome, traumatic diaphragmatic hernia with symptoms developing several months after injury. He described the case of a French artillery captain who was shot in the chest by an arquebus. The missile penetrated the sternum, traversed the muscular portion of the diaphragm, and made an exit through the left fifth interspace. The captain’s external wound healed and he returned to duty. Therea...

BACKGROUND Surgical correction needs to be considered when diaphragm eventration leads to impaired ventilation and respiratory muscle fatigue. Plication to sufficiently tense the diaphragm by VATS is not as easy to achieve as plication by open surgery. We used pneumatic compression with carbon dioxide (CO2) gas in thoracoscopic diaphragmatic plication and evaluated feasibility and efficacy. M...

BACKGROUND To evaluate our experience of early surgical plication for diaphragmatic eventration (DE) in infancy and childhood. METHODS This study evaluated infants and children with symptomatic DE who underwent plication through an open transthoracic approach in our childhood development department between January 2005 and December 2012. Surgical plication was performed in several rows using ...