title: Late presentation of a large Morgagni hernia in an adult.
abstract: A 57-year-old man with no medical history and comorbidities presented to the outpatient clinic with a 2-week history of increasing cough and shortness of breath following a recent viral upper respiratory tract infection. Chest X-ray showed increased mediastinal opacity. A CT scan of the thorax was performed which revealed a large right-sided diaphragmatic hernia extending across the mediastinum to the left side of the chest. Repair was performed via combined transthoracic and transabdominal approaches.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Castle Hill Hospital, Cottingham, UK.
authors.forename: Delia
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Marinceu
authors.forename: Mahmoud
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Loubani
authors.forename: Helen
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: O'Grady
mesh_terms: D003371:Cough / Q000209:etiology; D004417:Dyspnea / Q000209:etiology; D065630:Hernias, Diaphragmatic, Congenital / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011859:Radiography