title: Simultaneous laparoscopic management of Morgagni hernia and cholelithiasis: two case reports.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Morgagni hernia is a rare type of diaphragmatic hernia. Though in the past, it has been dealt with an open approach, nowadays laparoscopic management is a favored approach. However, there are few controversies in this scenario.
  
  
  METHODS
  We present here two females of Aryan ethnicity, one 55 and another 45 years old, who presented with pain at upper abdomen and retrosternal chest pain; on investigations were found to have cholelithiasis along with Morgagni hernia which were managed via the laparoscopic approach in the same sitting.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Repair of Morgagni hernia also via the minimally invasive technique can be offered to the patients like that for cholelithiasis.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, Civil Service Hospital of Nepal, Kathmandu, Nepal. vikalcsh@yahoo.com.
authors.forename: Vikal Chandra
authors.initials: VC
authors.lastname: Shakya
mesh_terms: D002769:Cholelithiasis / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D065630:Hernias, Diaphragmatic, Congenital / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D010535:Laparoscopy; D008875:Middle Aged; D011859:Radiography