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Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia

Left posterolateral diaphragmatic hernia, the infant died of severe persistent pulmonary hypertension. International Classification of Diseases code Q79.0

  • A - Plain X-ray of the thorax of a newborn with CDH. There are bowel loops into the left hemi-thorax, the mediastinum is displaced to the contralateral side and the space occupied by the lung is reduced.
  • B - small bowel loops can be seen entering the thorax through the orifice.
  • C - seen after reducing the contents of the hernia.
  • D - At autopsy, extreme left lung hypoplasia and less severe right lung hypoplasia were discovered.


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Reference

Tovar JA. (2012). Congenital diaphragmatic hernia. Orphanet J Rare Dis , 7, 1. PMID: 22214468 DOI.


Copyright

© 2012 Tovar; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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current13:08, 8 December 2012Thumbnail for version as of 13:08, 8 December 20121,000 × 494 (108 KB)Z8600021 (talk | contribs)===Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia=== A: Plain X-ray of the thorax of a newborn with CDH. There are bowel loops into the left hemi-thorax, the mediastinum is displaced to the contralateral side and the space occupied by the lung is reduced. B and C: At la