[A medical "odyssey" in a congenital unilateral diaphragm defect].
This is a case-report of an undiagnosed congenital defect (aplasia?) of the left diaphragm in a female adult, now aged 43 years. The woman was falsely diagnosed since her youth for cavernous tuberculosis and sent to a tuberculosis hospital for 17 months. Later on, the patient was thought to have a "tear" in the left lung (!) and treated for 9 months as an in-patient. Because of these wrong diagnoses dangerous therapeutic measures were performed. The retrospection this course seems to be rather unbelievable, however it should induce diagnosticians to serious reflections.
D000328:Adult; D003951:Diagnostic Errors; D003964:Diaphragm / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D006548:Hernia, Diaphragmatic / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D014397:Tuberculosis, Pulmonary / Q000175:diagnosis
Eine medizinische "Odyssee" bei kongenitalem unilateralem Zwerohfellmangel.