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Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 2001;20:629
© 2001 Elsevier Science NL

Images in cardio-thoracic surgery

Chronic post-traumatic hernia of the lung

Pier Luigi Filosso, Maurizio Mancuso, Franco Pischedda

Department of Thoracic Surgery, University of Torino, San Giovanni Battista Hospital, Via Genova, 3 10126 Torino, Italy

Received 31 March 2001; accepted 20 June 2001.

Corresponding author. Tel.: +39-011-6336635; fax: +39-011-6960170
e-mail: pierluigifilosso{at}tiscalinet.it

A 71-year-old white male was referred to our Department for thoracic pain. Five months ago the patient had a right blunt thoracic trauma, without evidence of pneumothorax or haemothorax. A soft swelling in the lower part of the right haemithorax was only evident at presentation.

Chest-X ray showed a pulmonary herniation (Fig. 1) , confirmed by thoracic CT scan (Fig. 2) .



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  		Fig. 1. Chest X-ray showing a right chronic pulmonary hernia.

 


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  		Fig. 2. Thoracic CT scan (reconstruction of the image) confirming the hernia in the lower part of the right haemitorax.

 
The patient was asymptomatic and for this cause no surgical procedures were performed for the reconstruction of the chest wall.





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