Diaphragmatic eventration - child

Case contributed by Hidayatullah Hamidi
Diagnosis certain

Presentation

Upper respiratory infection. Pediatriation found a large opacity in the right hemithorax on the chest radiograph.

Patient Data

Age: 6 months
Gender: Male

Large homogenous opacity in the right middle and lower zone

Parts of the right lobe of the liver are extended to the right hemithorax.

No herniation of the rest of the abdominal organs is noted in the thorax.

Case Discussion

The features are more likely of right diaphragmatic eventration rather than Morgagni hernia.

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