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LEONARD GRAIVIER, M.D.; ROBERT J. FREEARK, M.D.

AMA Arch Surg. 1963;86(3):363-373.

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The frequency of motor vehicle accidents and injuries resulting from physical violence calls for an increased awareness of the possibility of traumatic diaphragmatic hernia in the acutely injured patient.²⁴ The course of events following disruption of the diaphragm is highly variable. Overshadowing injury to the bony skeleton, central nervous system, lungs, or abdominal viscera may obscure a diaphragmatic problem in the immediate post-traumatic period. Often the delayed occurrence of visceral strangulation represents the first manifestation of diaphragmatic injury.²² The most serious complication of a diaphragmatic hernia is strangulation, and the occurrence of symptoms of intestinal obstruction or pulmonary compression in a patient with a recent or old wound of the chest or upper abdomen should arouse suspicion.²

Traumatic diaphragmatic hernia is the result of a sudden penetrating or nonpenetrating type of injury. Blunt trauma, as encountered in modern vehicular accidents, may impose a bursting force in the . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
CHICAGO

From the Departments of Surgery, Northwestern University Medical School and Cook County Hospital, and the Hektoen Institute for Medical Research of Cook County Hospital.

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Submitted for publication Aug. 20, 1962.

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