Leivaditis Vasileios, Grapatsas Konstantinos, Papatriantafyllou Athanasios, Koletsis Efstratios N, Charokopos Nikolaos, Dahm Manfred
Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, Westpfalz-Klinikum, Kaiserslautern, DEU.
Department of Thoracic Surgery and Thoracic Endoscopy, University Medicine Essen - Ruhrlandklinik, Essen, DEU.
Cureus. 2023 Apr 9;15(4):e37325. doi: 10.7759/cureus.37325. eCollection 2023 Apr.
Lung herniation is a rare clinical entity defined by extrathoracic protrusion of the lung or lung tissue due to a weakness in the thoracic wall. We present here a case of a 72-year-old male who presented with a spontaneous lung herniation, which occurred as a result of a ventral luxation of the third rib from the sternocostal joint due to vigorous coughing. The defect was repaired through anterolateral thoracotomy, reposition of the lung and approximating the ribs using heavy sutures. The postoperative course of the patient was uncomplicated. A brief review of the literature is also provided.
肺疝是一种罕见的临床病症，定义为由于胸壁薄弱导致肺或肺组织突出到胸外。我们在此报告一例72岁男性患者，其因剧烈咳嗽导致第三肋骨从胸肋关节腹侧脱位，从而出现自发性肺疝。通过前外侧开胸手术修复缺损，将肺复位并用粗缝线使肋骨对合。患者术后恢复过程顺利。本文还对相关文献进行了简要综述。
