A case of a 19-year-old with severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is presented. This case illustrates genetic (severe alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency) and host factors (such as developmental diaphragmatic hernia and the innate response to injury), and environmental (high oxidative stress and lung injury) interactions that lead to severe chronic obstructive lung disease. The development o...

It is usually assumed that lung hernia secondary to congenital absence of ribs is a great rarity. Perasalo and Laustela (1956) describing the latest published case, of a man aged 28 years, could not find any reference to this deformity in the literature and only one of the recently published books on paediatric surgery (Swenson, 1958) mentions the malformation. Perusal of the literature, howeve...

Introduction: Traumatic Abdominal Wall Hernia (TAWH) is a rare kind of hernia. The diagnosis of TAWHs can be challenging and TAWHs may go undiagnosed for long periods of time. Case presentation: A sixty-year-old male who had been involved in a car crash 10 years earlier was referred to us for a giant post-traumatic umbilical hernia. The clinical assessment revealed an irreducible huge hernia of...

We report a case of traumatic inguinal hernia following blunt abdominal trauma after a road traffic accident and describe the circumstances and technique of repair. The patient suffered multiple upper limb fractures and developed acute swelling of the right groin and scrotum. CT scan confirmed the acute formation of a traumatic inguinal hernia. Surgical repair was deferred until resolution of t...

A pulmonary hernia is a protrusion of the lung through defect in surrounding tissues, rather rare pathology and each clinical case scientific interest. The first description this was performed by Roland 1499. About 300 observations have been described world literature, most publications are isolated cases observation pathology. We presented experience thoracoscopic hernioplasty Russian Federati...

To cite: Prasad S, Rao K, Belle J, et al. BMJ Case Rep Published online: [please include Day Month Year] doi:10.1136/bcr-2013202952 DESCRIPTION A 50-year-old woman with a history of pulmonary tuberculosis 20 years ago presented to us with cough with copious expectoration and a swelling in the right side of neck which increased on coughing since 2 months. Her physical examination revealed rales ...

The most common cause of traumatic diaphragmatic rupture is blunt or penetrating thoraco-abdominal trauma. The proper diagnosis can be difficult to make due to the non-specific clinical picture. The surgical approach in managing diaphragmatic rupture includes laparotomy, thoracotomy, or both. This article presents a case of a 60year-old woman with post-traumatic peritoneopericardial diaphragmat...

Lightwood, R. G., and Cleland, W. P. (1974). Thorax, 29, 349-351. Cervical lung hernia. Lung hernias occur in the cervical position in about one third of cases. The remainder appear through the chest wall. Some lung hernias are congenital, but trauma is the most common cause. The indications for surgery depend upon the severity of symptoms. Repair by direct suture can be used for small tears in...

background diaphragmatic hernia after blunt trauma is an uncommon and often undiagnosed condition. objectives we aimed to review patients who presented with delayed blunt traumatic hernia of diaphragm. patients and methods in this retrospective study, the medical records of six patients treated for blunt diaphragmatic hernias who were admitted to kashan shahid beheshti hospital between june 200...

Iatrogenic right diaphragmatic hernia is very rare. We report the first case of a patient who had a diaphragmatic hernia after laparoscopic fenestration of liver cyst. A herniorrhaphy of the diaphragmatic defect was carried out after reducing the herniated organ. The postoperative course was uneventful. Diaphragmatic hernias are not as common as the traumatic type. Surgeons can easily miss diap...