Delayed presentation of traumatic parasternal lung hernia

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 65, Issue 4 SUPPL., 1998, Pages 1150-1151

  Jacka, Michael J ^a   Luison, Fabio ^a  

^a Atlantic Health Sciences Corporation   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLITEF;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HERNIA; HUMAN; LUNG CONTUSION; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; LUNG INJURY; MALE; OBESITY; PLEURA EFFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; SEATBELT INJURY; THORACOTOMY; THORAX DRAINAGE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEMOTHORAX; HERNIA; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY, MORBID; PAIN; PLEURAL EFFUSION; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; RESPIRATORY INSUFFICIENCY; STERNUM; THORACIC INJURIES; THORACOTOMY; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 0031947689     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0003-4975(98)00053-8     Document Type: Article

References (8)

1. Morel-Lavelle A. Hernies du poumon. Bull Soc Chir Paris 1847;1:75-195.
2. Moncada R, Vade A, Gimenez C, et al. Congenital and acquired lung hernias. J Thorac Imag 1996;11:75-82.
3. Arajarvi E, Santavirta S. Chest injuries sustained in severe traffic accidents by seatbelt wearers. J Trauma 1989;29:37-41.
4. May AK, Chan B, Daniel TM, Young JS. Anterior lung herniation: another aspect of the seatbelt syndrome. J Trauma 1995;38:587-9.
5. Garrett JN, Braunstein PW. The seatbelt syndrome. J Trauma 1962;2:220-38.
6. Cernilia J, Lin J, Ott R, et al. A technique for repair of traumatic parasternal lung herniation. J Trauma 1995;38:935-6.
7. Cohen MJ, Starling JR. Repair of subxiphoid incisional hernias with Marlex mesh after median sternotomy. Arch Surg 1985;120:1270-1.
8. Scullion DA, Negus R, Al-Kutoubi A. Extrathoracic herniation of the lung with a review of the literature. Br J Radiol 1994;67: 94-6.