Bochdalek diaphragmatic hernia with bowel incarceration

A Marichez1, B Fernandez1, L Chiche1

  • 1Department of hepato-bilio-pancreatic surgery and liver transplantation, Haut Lévêque hospital, CHU de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France; Medico-surgical center Magellan, 1, avenue de Magellan, 33600 Pessac, France.

Journal of Visceral Surgery
|December 19, 2020
PubMed

The purpose of this image is to illustrate a Bochdalek hernia diagnosis in a 39-year-old female patient treated on an emergency basis by means of CT-scan and following perioperative observation. Treatment consisted in initial laparoscopy that due to irreducible bowel incarceration was converted into hernia repair surgery through simple suture and thoracic drainage.