Lacayo L, Taveras J M, Sosa N, Ratzan K R
Department of Internal Medicine, Mount Sinai Medical Center (MSMC), Miami Beach 33140.
Chest. 1993 Mar;103(3):950-1. doi: 10.1378/chest.103.3.950.
A 20-year-old woman developed severe shortness of breath 4 h after a cesarean section. Chest roentgenogram showed a pleural effusion and tension pneumothorax; insertion of a chest tube drained liquid stool. At surgery she was found to have a left diaphragmatic defect with herniation, strangulation, and perforation of the transverse colon into the pleural cavity.
