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[Diaphragmatic injuries--classification, diagnosis and therapy]. 1997

G Steinau, and D Bosman, and B Dreuw, and V Schumpelick

Chirurgische Universitätsklinik, RWTH Aachen.

Diagnosis of diaphragmatic rupture is often missed after blunt thoracic and abdominal injuries. Rupture of the diaphragm is caused either by direct or indirect violence. The clinical manifestations are unpredictable and of infinite variety, and, especially in massively traumatized patients, masked by other injuries. Between 1987 and 1995, 17 patients were treated for traumatic injury of the diaphragm. Four of 17 patients sustained isolated diaphragmatic rupture; in 13 the rupture was combined with other injuries. Preoperatively the following diagnostic procedures were performed: ultrasonography in 12 patients, chest X-ray in 6, computed tomography of the abdomen in 2, water soluble enema into the stomach in 1, and computed tomography of the thorax in 1 patient. Therapy of diaphragmatic injury was performed in 15 patients within 2 days, in one within 1 year and in one 23 years after the accident. Two patients died due to accompanying injuries.

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D007223	Infant	A child between 1 and 23 months of age.	Infants
D008297	Male		Males
D008875	Middle Aged	An adult aged 45 - 64 years.	Middle Age
D009104	Multiple Trauma	Multiple physical insults or injuries occurring simultaneously.	Injuries, Multiple,Trauma, Multiple,Wounds, Multiple,Multiple Injuries,Polytrauma,Injury, Multiple,Multiple Injury,Multiple Traumas,Multiple Wound,Multiple Wounds,Polytraumas,Traumas, Multiple,Wound, Multiple
D002648	Child	A person 6 to 12 years of age. An individual 2 to 5 years old is CHILD, PRESCHOOL.	Children
D002675	Child, Preschool	A child between the ages of 2 and 5.	Children, Preschool,Preschool Child,Preschool Children
D005260	Female		Females
D006549	Hernia, Diaphragmatic, Traumatic	The type of DIAPHRAGMATIC HERNIA caused by TRAUMA or injury, usually to the ABDOMEN.	Diaphragmatic Hernia, Traumatic,Diaphragmatic Hernias, Traumatic,Hernia, Traumatic Diaphragmatic,Hernias, Traumatic Diaphragmatic,Traumatic Diaphragmatic Hernia,Traumatic Diaphragmatic Hernias
D006801	Humans	Members of the species Homo sapiens.	Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D000007	Abdominal Injuries	General or unspecified injuries involving organs in the abdominal cavity.	Injuries, Abdominal,Abdominal Injury,Injury, Abdominal

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