title: [Diaphragmatic hernia and diaphragm rupture in infancy and childhood].
abstract: The article reports on experiences at the Clinic of Paediatric Surgery with 32 infants and school children with diaphragmatic hernia or rupture. The children were between 5 months and 10 years old. Newborn were excluded from the study. 27 hernias were congenital, whereas 5 were traumatically conditioned. Treatment was surgical and almost exclusively via the abdominal approach. Three children died, one of them before surgery, two from postoperative complications.
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003964:Diaphragm / Q000293:injuries*; D005260:Female; D006548:Hernia, Diaphragmatic / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D011859:Radiography; D012421:Rupture
vernacular_title: Die Zwerchfellhernie und Zwerchfellruptur im Klein- und Schulkindesalter.