Intrathoracic rupture of the spleen.
The case is reported of a 15-year-old girl who presented following trauma and was found to have a massive congenital diaphragmatic hernia through the foramen of Bochdalek. The spleen, which was intrathoracic, had ruptured. No other similar cases have been reported in the literature hitherto.
D000293:Adolescent; D005260:Female; D006548:Hernia, Diaphragmatic / Q000150:complications*; D065630:Hernias, Diaphragmatic, Congenital; D006801:Humans; D013161:Splenic Rupture / Q000150:complications*