title: Crossing the barrier: when the diaphragm is not a limit.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The purpose of this article is to depict the anatomic pathways along which transphrenic spread of diseases and entities can disseminate.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The abdomen and thorax form a continuum on which the diaphragm is an important but incomplete barrier to disease migration.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Universidad de Chile, Campus Occidente, Facultad de medicine, Hospital San Juan de Dios, Avenida Portales 3239, Santiago, Chile. leolidid@gmail.com
authors.forename: Leonardo
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Lidid
authors.forename: Juan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Valenzuela
authors.forename: Carlos
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Villarroel
authors.forename: Julia
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Alegria
mesh_terms: D001011:Aorta / Q000033:anatomy & histology; D003964:Diaphragm / Q000033:anatomy & histology* / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology; D004947:Esophagus / Q000033:anatomy & histology; D006551:Hernia, Hiatal / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000503:physiopathology; D006801:Humans; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed