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Query: UMLS:C0019270 (
hernia
)
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document(s) hit in 31,850,051 MEDLINE articles (0.00 seconds)
Spontaneous pneumothorax
and tension pneumothorax are being increasingly recognized as complications of traumatic diaphragmatic
hernia
, particularly when presentation is delayed. This underscores the importance of suspecting the diagnosis of diaphragmatic
hernia
in patients with a recent or remote history of blunt or penetrating trauma to the chest or abdomen and an unusual or an atypical thoracic process. Once the diagnosis is suspected, confirmation with contrast studies, CT, or MRI should be obtained and surgical repair undertaken without delay.
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PMID:Tension pneumothorax as a presentation of traumatic diaphragmatic hernia. 150 29
