Garge Saurabh Shyam, Passi Gouri Rao, Ghanekar Devendra
Department of Pediatric Surgery, Choithram Hospital and Research Centre, Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India.
Department of Pediatric, Choithram Hospital and Research Centre, Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India.
J Indian Assoc Pediatr Surg. 2017 Jul-Sep;22(3):165-167. doi: 10.4103/0971-9261.207622.
Phrenic nerve palsy is a rare cause of respiratory distress in a newborn. When conservative measures fail to achieve adequate ventilation, then early surgical plication has been found to be associated with good outcome. We report a case of neonate with phrenic nerve palsy in whom an early thoracoscopic diaphragmatic plication was done.