title: Surgical repair of congenital diaphragmatic eventration in a septugerian lady.
abstract: Congenital diaphragmatic eventration in an elderly is a rare anomaly. We describe a case of congenital diaphragmatic eventration causing respiratory insufficiency in a 72 year lady who underwent successful surgical repair.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research, Puducherry, India. srikrishna8@gmail.com
authors.forename: M Reddy
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: Srikrishna
authors.forename: Nr
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Ravishankar
authors.forename: Jaganathan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Raghavan
authors.forename: M Kumar
authors.initials: MK
authors.lastname: Natarajan
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D003965:Diaphragmatic Eventration / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D011859:Radiography