[Post-traumatic diaphragmatic herniation : case report and literature review]

Post-traumatic diaphragmatic herniation is not common, but its diagnosis can be easily missed in the early management. Late diagnosis is shown to increase morbidity and mortality of those patients. It is thus extremely important to keep that possibility in mind while examining post- traumatic patients, and interpreting CT scan images. This article will first describe a case report of a young man presenting an intrathoracic herniation of the stomach, before proceeding to a literature review to describe and recognize this particular entity.