Open AccessEventratio diaphragmatica
Author(s) -
Subagjo Martodipuro,
Nurjono Sunarjo,
Pitono Suparto,
L. Partana
Publication year - 1973
Publication title -
paediatrica indonesiana
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2338-476X
pISSN - 0030-9311
DOI - 10.14238/pi13.1.1973.35-42
Subject(s) - medicine , diaphragm (acoustics) , thoracotomy , thoracic cavity , diaphragmatic breathing , diaphragmatic hernia , phrenic nerve , surgery , hernia , abdominal cavity , anatomy , respiratory system , physics , alternative medicine , pathology , acoustics , loudspeaker
A diaphragmatic eventration is a displacement of abdominal structures into the thoracic cavity, due to weakness and balooning of the diaphragm (Nelson, 1969). In several aspects it has similarities with a diaphragmatic hernia, i.e. the space occupying effects to the lungs, and the sequences of it. An eventration can be divided in 2 groups, the congenital eventration, where the diaphragm is devoid of mucles and only a membrane is separating the abdominal from the pleural cavity; and the acquired one where the phrenic nerve is damaged, usually due to birth injury; but it can also be caused by any other trauma (Bernado et aI., 1961; Bisono et aI., 1970) such as surgical procedures at the time of thoracotomy, the so called iatrogenic eventration (Jewett et aI., 1964).