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Traumatic intrapericardial diaphragmatic hernia diagnosed by echocardiography
C Colliver1, D W Oller, G Rose
1Department of Surgery, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, USA.
The Journal of Trauma
|January 1, 1997
Abstract:
Emergency Department echocardiography revealed an intrapericardial hollow viscus in an 80-year-old auto crash victim. This proved to be stomach herniated through a ruptured diaphragm. Echocardiography and ultrasonography are very valuable diagnostic procedures currently available to the trauma surgeon to rule out diaphragmatic injury early in the trauma room.