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Case Reports
. 1999 Oct;81(4):341-2.
doi: 10.1136/adc.81.4.341.

Spontaneous rupture of the diaphragm

A Akbar  1 , D H Parikh, H Alton, J R Clarke, P H Weller, S H Green
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Case Reports

Spontaneous rupture of the diaphragm

A Akbar et al. Arch Dis Child. 1999 Oct.

Abstract

A 2.5 year old girl with metachromatic leukodystrophy presented with acute respiratory distress and was initially wrongly diagnosed with pneumothorax. Barium meal showed bowel loops in the left hemithorax, which prompted surgical intervention; spontaneous rupture of the diaphragm was diagnosed at surgery.

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