Acute Traumatic Diaphragmatic Injury

Acute diaphragmatic hernia is a result of diaphragmatic injury that accompanies severe blunt or penetrating thoracoabdominal trauma. It is frequently diagnosed early on the trauma bay chest radiograph or CT scan of the chest. However, in the absence of a hernia, it may be difficult to identify traumatic diaphragmatic injury on conventional imaging. A midline laparotomy is the advocated approach for repair of acute diaphragmatic trauma because …