Strangulated parahiatal hernia: not just another paraesophageal hernia.
Exploratory thoracotomy was necessary to establish the diagnosis of a rare incarcerated parahiatal hernia. Symptomatology, signs, and radiographic findings are compared with those of paraesophageal hernias.
Demmy
T L
TL
Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Missouri, Columbia 65212.
Boley
T M
TM
Curtis
J J
JJ
D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006551:Hernia, Hiatal / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D011859:Radiography; D013908:Thoracotomy