[Delayed recognition of traumatic rupture of the diaphragm. Diagnostic and therapeutic problems]

The Authors face the diagnostic and therapeutical problems involved in the tardy recognition of diaphragmatic breakages. On the basis of two clinical cases observed, they emphasize the relative frequency of this lesion, the variability of the clinical pictures, the limits of the clinical and radiological diagnostics, the utmost seriousness of the complications. They face the problem of the choice of the surgical way of approach and the techniques for repairing the diaphragmatic lacerations.