Diagnosis of diaphragmatic hernia
Alecu, L.
Chirurgia 97(2): 101-113
2002
ISSN/ISBN: 1221-9118 PMID: 12731220 Document Number: 544465
Diaphragmatic hernias (congenital and traumatic) belongs to thoracoabdominal surgery which is a borderline chapter. Considering frequency, they are on the second place in the diaphragmatic pathology, after hiatal hernias. The author presents the criterias of the clinical examination, based on the bibliographic datas: also by presents the imagistic investigations used for identification of the diaphragmatic hernias, excepting the oesophageal hiatus hernias. There are some particular features appearing in the diagnostical algorithm, too.