title: [Intercostal lung hernia diagnosed by computed tomography images under the semilateral position].
abstract: A 62-year-old man developed a swelling of the left anterior chest after surgery for a thoracic aortic aneurysm. Chest computed tomography (CT) images in the left semilateral position, which were obtained when his intrathoracic pressure was elevated through the Valsalva maneuver, showed a herniated lung with a fragile site of the surgical wound in the chest wall as a hernial orfice, as well as a hernial sac in the posterior of the greater pectoral muscle. A diagnosis of traumatic hernia occurring after thoracotomy was made, for which radical surgery involving direct closure was performed.
authors: Department of Thoracic Surgery, Ehime Prefectural Central Hospital, Matsuyama, Japan.
authors: Takahiro
authors: T
authors: Sawada
authors: Daisuke
authors: D
authors: Taniguchi
authors: Chusei
authors: C
authors: Ryu
authors: Hideki
authors: H
authors: Sasaki
authors: Hiroshi
authors: H
authors: Ishitoya
mesh_terms: D006547:Hernia / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006801:Humans; D008171:Lung Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011183:Postoperative Complications; D011187:Posture; D013908:Thoracotomy; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed / Q000379:methods*