CLINICAL REPORTS   

Chirurgia 1999 October;12(5):351-2

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language: Italian

Post-traumatic diaphragmatic hernia. Clinical case

Molizzi T. C., Miceli F., Folino G., Daffinà R., Rubino P., Miceli R.

A case of post-traumatic diaphragmatic hernia is described, diagnosed about six months after an abdominal trauma due to a railway accident, in a patient presenting an aspecific symptomatology characterized by recurrent epigastralgia that solved spontaneously after some hours. The surgical treatment, with a laparoscopic approach was usuful in better defining the diagnosis, and the diaphragmatic hernioplasty led to the total recovery of the patient.