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Updated: Apr 2 2016

Traumatic Diaphragmatic Injury

Introduction
  • Traumatic diaphragmatic herniaBlunt trauma leads to large radial tears that lead to immediate herniation
  • Penetrating trauma leads to small tears that take years to herniate
  • More common on left side
Presentation
  •  Symptoms/physical exam
    • varied
Differential
  • CXR
    • shows elevated diaphagm, acute gastic dilation, a loculated pneumohemothrorax
    • insert NG tube and repeat CXR
  • Upper GI contrast series
    • if diagnosis is not clear
  • Peritoneal fluid in in chest tube drainage is diagnositic
Treatment/Management
  • Surgical repair
 
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