Abstract:Purpose: Chilaiditi’s sign (CS), hepatodiaphragmatic interposition of the intestine, was caused by morphological abnormalities such as diaphragmatic atrophy, intestinal dilation, and liver atrophy. The sign is potentially important due to associations with clinically recurrent abdominal pain or even colonic volvulus. Late-onset Pompe disease (LOPD) could have the high prevalence of CS because of widened hepatodiaphragmatic space, following diaphragmatic atrophy, and the abnormal dilation of intestine caused by… Show more
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