Taylor B, Watanabe A, Chua G T
Decatur County Memorial Hospital, Radiology Department, Greensburg, IN 47240.
Indiana Med. 1992 May-Jun;85(3):230-2.
The case of a 36-year-old man with an unsuspected delayed posttraumatic diaphragmatic hernia is described. This entity often presents with vague clinical symptoms and non-specific radiographic findings long after the initiating trauma has been forgotten. Therefore, the preoperative diagnosis of this entity is notoriously difficult, but failure to make this diagnosis carries a high mortality rate. A high index of suspicion must be maintained.