Abstract:Diaphragmatic injury is an unusual life threatening complication of blunt trauma abdomen. However, a double blow injury occurring simultaneously such as diaphragmatic hernia and gastric injury is a rare injury. The association of gastric perforation along with diaphragmatic injury increases the mortality as well as morbidity manifold as compared to an isolated diaphragmatic injury. Traumatic diaphragmatic injury has variable clinical presentation ranging from pain in abdomen to respiratory distress and pneumon… Show more
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