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Current concepts in the management of paraesophageal hiatal hernia
M Hashemi1, L F Sillin, J H Peters
1Department of Surgery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA.
Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology
|July 15, 1999
Abstract:
Herniation of a portion of the stomach through the esophageal hiatus into the posterior mediastinum is a common affliction of humans. The incidence of hiatal hernia is difficult to determine because of the absence of symptoms in a large number of patients. Upper gastrointestinal barium examinations in symptomatic patients identify some type of hiatal hernia in as many as 15% of patients.