Duarte Fernanda, Wentling Jessica, Anjum Humayun, Varon Joseph, Surani Salim
Universidad del Valle de México, Hermosillo, SON, Mexico.
Christus Spohn Hospital, Memorial, Corpus Christi, TX, USA.
Case Rep Crit Care. 2016;2016:4146080. doi: 10.1155/2016/4146080. Epub 2016 Aug 30.
The most common cause of a pneumoperitoneum is a perforation of a hollow viscus and the treatment is an exploratory laparotomy; nevertheless, not all pneumoperitoneums are due to a perforation and not all of them need surgical intervention. We hereby present a case of pneumoperitoneum due to a diaphragmatic defect, which allowed air from a pneumothorax to escape through the diaphragmatic hernia into the abdominal cavity.
气腹最常见的原因是中空脏器穿孔,治疗方法是剖腹探查术;然而,并非所有气腹都是由穿孔引起的,也并非所有气腹都需要手术干预。我们在此介绍一例因膈肌缺损导致的气腹病例,该缺损使得气胸的气体通过膈疝进入腹腔。