RT Book, Section
A1 Schinnerer, Eric A.
A1 Rue, Loring W.
A1 Kerby, Jeffrey D.
A2 Sugarbaker, David J.
A2 Bueno, Raphael
A2 Burt, Bryan M.
A2 Groth, Shawn S.
A2 Loor, Gabriel
A2 Wolf, Andrea S.
A2 Williams, Marcia
A2 Adams, Ann
SR Print(0)
ID 1170416079
T1 Acute and Chronic Diaphragmatic Hernias
T2 Sugarbaker’s Adult Chest Surgery, 3e
YR 2020
FD 2020
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9781260026931
LK accesssurgery.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1170416079
RD 2024/04/24
AB The  diaphragm,  in  its  role  as  the  musculoaponeurotic  structure  that  separates  the  thoracic  and  abdominal  domains,  is  subject  to  injury  following  blunt  or  penetrating  trauma.  Historic  accounts  documenting  diaphragmatic  injury  date  from  1541,  when  Sennertus  described  the  postmortem  finding  of  delayed  herniation  of  the  stomach  through  a  diaphragmatic  defect  in  a  patient  who  had  previously  suffered  a  penetrating  chest  wound.  Detailed  postmortem  findings  related  to  both  blunt  and  penetrating  diaphragmatic  injuries  were  reported  by  Ambroise  Paré  in  the  sixteenth  century.  The  first  antemortem  diagnosis  of  a  traumatic  diaphragmatic  injury  was  published  by  H.  I.  Bowditch  in  1853,  who  also  set  forth  physical  criteria  for  the  diagnosis  of  traumatic  diaphragmatic  hernias.  Riolfi,  in  1886,  subsequently  performed  the  first  successful  repair  of  a  diaphragmatic  laceration  secondary  to  penetrating  trauma.  Hedblom,  in  1925,  reviewed  378  cases  of  diaphragmatic  hernias  in  the  surgical  literature,  providing  a  contemporary  overview  of  diagnosis  and  surgical  treatment.