Literature DB >> 17511380

[Perforation of a hiatal hernia after a high altitude flight].

R Kenfack1, S Debaize, B Sztern, P Joukovsky.   

Abstract

We report the case of a 84-year-old patient who came to the emergency department for vomiting and epigastralgia which had occurred during an air flight. These symptoms were related to the intraabdominal perforation of a massive hiatal hernia on barotrauma due to high altitude.

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Year:  2007        PMID: 17511380

Source DB:  PubMed          Journal:  Rev Med Liege        ISSN: 0370-629X


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