Delayed intrathoracic herniation of the stomach with pleural empyema due to diaphragmatic stab wound
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A E Vento1, L Heikkilä, V Perhoniemi
1Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Helsinki University Central Hospital, Finland.
Scandinavian Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
|January 1, 1996
Abstract:
A 32-year-old man received a left-sided thoracic stab wound, which was primarily treated with percutaneous tube thoracostomy. Ipsilateral empyema appeared 8 weeks later and subsequent investigations revealed herniation of the stomach through the diaphragm. The diaphragmatic rupture and a perforation in the gastric wall were repaired at thoracotomy. The literature on such wounds is reviewed.