Lauder G R
Shackleton Department of Anaesthetics, Southampton General Hospital.
Anaesthesia. 1993 Apr;48(4):315-6. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2044.1993.tb06951.x.
A case of phrenic nerve paralysis following interpleural analgesia for cholecystectomy is reported. The pre-operative chest X ray was normal but chest X ray after cholecystectomy and interpleural analgesia revealed a raised right hemidiaphragm. This resolved after discontinuation of the interpleural analgesia and was probably a result of phrenic nerve paralysis produced by the interpleural local anaesthetic.