SHHeS ing at stool, etc. Direct trauma to the diaphragm is necessarily secondary to
penetration of the chest or abdominal wall. Thus the projectile, dagger, bayonet and knife …

An increasing number of cases of diaphragmatic hernia are being recognized, and the
condition is probably more common than even present records would indicate. The …

STUART W. HARRINGTON, MD ROCHESTER, MINNESOTA The most common Iesions of
the diaphragm which require surgica1 treatment are abnorma1 openings through its …

DIAPTIRAGMATIC hernia has bleen largely in evi (leice in both American and foreign me
(lical literature the last few years. Sisk'computes that about one thousand cases have been …

BY S. ALLEN WILKINSON, MD\s= d\THIS report concerns itself chiefly with the medical
handling of the smaller varieties of diaphragmatic hernia and a discussion of the …

IT is the purpose of this paper to call the attention of internists and of surgeons to the
frequency of diaphragmatic hernias, especially small ones, because patients suffering from …

IN THE past decade outstanding articles have appeared in the literature on diaphragmatic
hernia. It is a condition which nowadays is diagnosed clinically with greater frequency than it …

Diaphragmatic hernia has been termed" the great masquerader" and is second only to
duodenal ulcer in the frequency with which it presents symptoms involving the upper …

ALTHOUGH the first description of a diaphragmatic hernia appeared in the sixteenth
century, the condition remained more or less a medical curiosity for three hundred years …

Seventy-eight cases of symptomatic diaphragmatic hernia are reported—55 hiatal (42
sliding, 9 rolling, 4 intrathoracic stomach), 19 diaphragmatic hernias proper (12 Bochdalek …