Open AccessLeft posterolateral strangulated congenital diaphragmatic hernia in children: About a case at the Charles de Gaulle Paediatric Teaching Hospital in Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso)
Author(s) -
Emile Bandré,
A Wandaogo,
Issoufou Ouédraogo,
Madipon,
Bernadette Béré,
Yvette B. Kabré,
Toussaint Wend Lamita Tapsoba,
Frédéric Ouédraogo
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
african journal of paediatric surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.163
H-Index - 17
eISSN - 0189-6725
pISSN - 0974-5998
DOI - 10.4103/0189-6725.150991
Subject(s) - medicine , presentation (obstetrics) , congenital diaphragmatic hernia , diaphragmatic breathing , general surgery , diaphragm (acoustics) , diaphragmatic hernia , surgery , hernia , case presentation , pathology , pregnancy , fetus , physics , alternative medicine , biology , acoustics , loudspeaker , genetics
Late presentation of congenital diaphragmatic hernia is uncommon. It poses considerable diagnostic challenges when it strangulates. The authors report a case of a left posterolateral strangulated congenital diaphragmatic hernia in a 5-year-old child diagnosed at the stage of acute intestinal occlusion with intestinal necrosis and managed successfully. A strangulated congenital diaphragmatic hernia should be suspected in the case of an association of sudden-onset respiratory and digestive manifestations with no sign of trauma or specific pulmonary history. It then requires an antero posterior thoracic X-ray or, even better, a thoracic-abdominal scan to confirm the diagnosis.