Small bowel strangulation due to peritoneopericardial diaphragmatic hernia.
A 75-year-old Korean man was referred to our hospital with cramping abdominal pain. His chest X-ray showed an abnormal air shadow above the diaphragm, and computed tomography showed an abdominal viscera in the pericardium. We performed surgery and confirmed peritoneopericardial diaphragmatic hernia with small bowel strangulation. Postoperative course was uneventful. Peritoneopericardial diaphragmatic hernia is very rare in humans, so we report the case with a literature review.
Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, College of Medicine, Yeungnam University, Daemyeong 5-dong, Nam-gu, Daegu 705-717, Korea. heartljh@yumail.ac.kr.
Jang-Hoon
JH
Lee
Se-Won
SW
Kim
D000368:Aged; D006548:Hernia, Diaphragmatic / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D007415:Intestinal Obstruction / Q000209:etiology*; D007421:Intestine, Small / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000601:surgery; D008297:Male; D013902:Radiography, Thoracic