[Diaphragmatic hernia--admitted under the gallstone diagnosis].
A 34-year old woman was admitted with pain in the upper right abdomen. The tentative diagnosis was gall stones, but none of the paraclinical results supported this diagnosis. A chest x-ray showed a completely white right lung. A later computertomography showed a colon-loop in the thorax and haemo-/pneumothorax. The patient's condition deteriorated, a life-threatening state of sepsis developed and she was transferred to a surgery facility where an incarcerated congenital diaphragmatic hernia was established. After surgery she was discharged with a temporary ostomy, but otherwise feeling well.
Hejmdal
Anders
A
Organkirurgisk Afdeling, Sygehus Øst-Køge, DK-4600 Køge. hejmdal@dadlnet.dk
Dakhil
Akram
A
Boel
Thomas
T
D000328:Adult; D023881:Colonography, Computed Tomographic; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D042882:Gallstones / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006468:Hemopneumothorax / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D006548:Hernia, Diaphragmatic / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D065630:Hernias, Diaphragmatic, Congenital; D006801:Humans