The diagnostic corner

Traumatic Diaphragmatic Hernia

“…A 38-year-old Negro male was admitted to the Cook County Hospital for the third time on Jan. 20,1959, with the chief complaint of upper abdominal pain of 10 hours' duration. The history, obtained with difficulty, was of a sudden onset of sharp, con¬ stant, left upper quadrant pain, markedly aggravated by respiration.…”