tightening and lowering the diaphragm into the abdomen. Sugarbaker DJ, Bueno R, Krasna MJ, Mentzer SJ, Zellos L (eds). Adult Chest Surgery. New York: The McGraw-Hill Company, 2009. Wood H. Eventration ...

A hiatal hernia occurs when a small portion of the stomach pushes upward through the diaphragm, a sheetlike muscle that separates ... or, in severe cases, surgery. A hiatal hernia often is diagnosed ...

Read in part before a combined meeting of the Philadelphia Academy of Surgery and the Boston Surgical Society, March 4, 1940. From the Department of Surgery, Children's Hospital, and the ...

Background and Aims: Feeding difficulties and nutritional compromise are recognised sequelae in survivors following congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH) repair. This study aims to investigate ...