ABS81: Delayed presentation of gastrothorax masquerading as pneumothorax- a diagnostic challenge
| Autor: | How Choon How, Tee Augustine, Min Quah Hui |
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| Rok vydání: | 2006 |
| Předmět: |
Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine
Diaphragmatic rupture medicine.medical_specialty medicine.diagnostic_test business.industry General surgery Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health medicine.disease Diagnostic tools Abstracts Delayed presentation Pneumothorax Blunt trauma medicine Presentation (obstetrics) Differential diagnosis business Chest radiograph human activities |
| Zdroj: | Primary Care Respiratory Journal. 15:208-208 |
| ISSN: | 1475-1534 1471-4418 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.pcrj.2006.04.173 |
| Popis: | Traumatic diaphragmatic rupture (TDR) following blunt trauma such as a road traffic accident is well reported. We present a case of delayed presentation of TDR that occurred after a party game of “musical chairs”. Clinical presentation, signs and the initial chest radiograph were suggestive of a large pneumothorax. Timely consideration of gastrothorax as a possible differential diagnosis; we inserted a nasogastric tube which clinched our diagnosis and decompressed the gastric contents. We discuss briefly the diagnostic tools usually recruited in such clinical scenarios and possible complications arising from clinical management. Conflict of interest and funding Nil. |
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