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Case Reports
. 2007 Mar;62(3):144-6.

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

[Article in French]
R Kenfack  1 , S Debaize, B Sztern, P Joukovsky
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Case Reports

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

[Article in French]
R Kenfack et al. Rev Med Liege. 2007 Mar.
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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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