FOUR CASES OF MORGAGNI'S FORAMEN HERNIA

Abstract

Experiences with surgical treatment for morgagni hernia in four patients are reported. All patients were elderly women. The hernia contents were the omentum in three without symptom. The most important diagnostic examinations were chest X-ray, CT scan, GI series and pneumoperitoneum. However, selective celiac angiography offered a useful clue for diagnosis when the hernia content was the omentum.
Satisfactory repairs were carried out by the transabdominal approach, and the patient's prognoses were excellent without any complication or recurrence. In one, a concurrent lesion of histal hernia was simultaneously corrected.