title: [Thoracic surgery in solving enormous elevation of the left hemidiaphragm].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Acquired elevation of the diaphragm is mostly the result of phrenic nerve paralysis, some of thoracic and abdominal patological states, and also some of neuromuscular diseases. Surgical treatment is rarely performed and is indicated when lung compression produces disabilitating dyspnea, and includes plication of diaphragm. The goal of this case report has been to show completely documented diagnostic procedures and surgical treatment one of rare pathological condition.
  
  
  METHODS
  A 62-year-old patient was admitted to our clinic because of surgical treatment of the enormous elevation of the left hemidiaphragm. After thoracotomy and plication of the bulging diaphragm, lung compression did not exist any more and mediastinum went back in the normal position.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Elevation of the diaphragm rarely demands surgical correction. When it is complicated with lung compression and disabilitating dyspnea, surgical treatment has extremely useful functional effect.
authors.affiliation: Vojnomedicinska akademija, Klinika za grudnu hirurgiju, Beograd.
authors.forename: Vlado
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Cvijanović
authors.forename: Vojkan
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Stanić
authors.forename: Aleksandar
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ristanović
authors.forename: Bojan
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Gulić
authors.forename: Savo
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Durković
authors.forename: Davor
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Stamenović
authors.forename: Nebojsa
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Marić
authors.forename: Snezana
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kovacević
mesh_terms: D003964:Diaphragm / Q000601:surgery*; D003965:Diaphragmatic Eventration / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D004417:Dyspnea / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011859:Radiography; D019616:Thoracic Surgical Procedures