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Bochdalek hernia masquerading as a tension pneumothorax
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- Published on: 10 August 2004
- Published on: 10 August 2004Emergency Management of 'Tension Gastrothorax'Show More
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Dalton and colleagues describe a rare case of tension gastrothorax from a Bochdalek hernia. Their case was managed in the belief it was a tension pneumothorax, with subsequent perforation of the stomach and soiling of the chest cavity. They suggest that this diagnosis should be entertained in certain cases and that emergency management should be decompression with a nasogastric tube.
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