Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành y học dành cho các bạn tham khảo đề tài: Traumatic avulsion of kidney and spleen into the chest through a ruptured diaphragm in a young worker: a case report | Journal of Medical Case Reports BioMed Central Open Access Case report Traumatic avulsion of kidney and spleen into the chest through a ruptured diaphragm in a young worker a case report Konstantinos Stamatiou 2 Georgios Ilias1 Christos Chlopsios1 Vasilissa Karanasiou1 Nikolaos Kavouras1 Fred Lebrun1 John Heretis3 and Frank Sofras3 Address 1Surgery department General hospital of Thebes Thebes Greece 2Urology department General hospital of Thebes Thebes Greece and 3Urology department University hospital of Heraclion Heraclion Greece Email Konstantinos Stamatiou - stamatiouk@ Georgios Ilias - sgoumary@ Christos Chlopsios - christoschlopsios@ Vasilissa Karanasiou - karanasiou@ Nikolaos Kavouras - nkavouraki@ Fred Lebrun - sgoumary@ John Heretis - jheretis@ Frank Sofras - sofras@ Corresponding author Published 12 December 2007 Received 22 February 2007 -. J . J _. n Accepted 12 December 2007 Journal of Medical Case Reports 2007 1 178 doi l 752-1947-1-178 This article is available from http content 1 1 178 2007 Konstantinos et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract_ Introduction Rupture of the diaphragm is almost always due to major trauma. Diaphragmatic injuries are rare 5-7 usually secondary to blunt or more rarely to penetrating thoracic or abdominal trauma. No single investigation provides a reliable diagnosis of diaphragmatic rupture when a patient first arrives at hospital. Almost 33 are suspected on initial chest x-ray but the percentage is lower in patients who are immediately intubated. Mortality in patients with .
