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OBJECTIVE To inform a patient with penetrating thoracic trauma and diaphragm injury that produced stomach herniation, being reduced the hernia and repaired the injury by laparoscopy though abdominal route with excellent result. METHODS 17-years-old male, hemodynamically stable with penetrating injury in the fifth left intercostal space, at the level of the middle auxiliary line, pneumothorax and left diaphragmatic hernia. Treatment. A pleurostomy tube was inserted. By laparoscopy 600 mL of free blood in abdominal cavity were aspired, the stomach hernia was reduced and the diaphragmatic repair was performed with nylon 3-0 running suture. The evolution was excellent, being integrated to his work at the twentieth postoperative day. CONCLUSIONS Our case supports that laparoscopic surgery is at therapeutic alternative in select cases of trauma.
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