Iatrogenic diaphragmatic hernia with fecopneumothorax following minimally invasive esophagectomy and liver resection

Ammara A Watkins^{1

2}, Aditya Kalluri³, Alok Gupta⁴, Sidhu P Gangadharan³

Affiliations

¹ Division of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Lahey Hospital and Medical Center, Burlington, Mass.
² Tufts Medical School, Boston, Mass.
³ Division of Thoracic Surgery and Interventional Pulmonology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass.
⁴ Division of Acute Care Surgery, Trauma, and Surgical Critical Care, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass.

Case Reports

Ammara A Watkins et al. JTCVS Tech. 2021.

. 2021 Nov 3:11:89-91.

doi: 10.1016/j.xjtc.2021.10.052. eCollection 2022 Feb.

Ammara A Watkins^{1

2}, Aditya Kalluri³, Alok Gupta⁴, Sidhu P Gangadharan³

¹ Division of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Lahey Hospital and Medical Center, Burlington, Mass.
² Tufts Medical School, Boston, Mass.
³ Division of Thoracic Surgery and Interventional Pulmonology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass.
⁴ Division of Acute Care Surgery, Trauma, and Surgical Critical Care, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass.

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