1997 Volume 11 Issue 7 Pages 861-864
A 55-year-old woman was admitted as an emergency with multiple injuries sustained in a motor vehicle accident. She suffered a subarachnoideal hemorrage, right multiple rib fractures, right lung contusion and right pelvic fracture.
Seven days after her injury, chest Xp showed right hemothorax and a chest tube was placed. Subsequent chest Xp showed elevation of the right hemidiaphragma.
Magnetic resonance imaging showed herniation of the liver in the right hemithorax.
Twenty one days after her injury, the right diaphragma was repaired successfully using a Video-assisted procedure.
