Eventratio diaphragmatica

Subagjo Martodipuro (Department of Child Health, Airlangga University Medical School, Surabaya, East Java)
Nurjono Sunarjo (Department of Child Health, Airlangga University Medical School, Surabaya, East Java)
Pitono Suparto (Department of Child Health, Airlangga University Medical School, Surabaya, East Java)
L. Partana (Department of Child Health, Airlangga University Medical School, Surabaya, East Java)

Paediatrica Indonesiana
Vol 13 No 1 (1973): January 1973

A diaphragmatic eventration is a displacement of abdominal structures into the thoracic cavity, due to weakness and balooning of the diaphragm (Nelson, 1969). In several aspects it has similarities with a diaphragmatic hernia, i.e. the space occupying effects to the lungs, and the sequences of it. An eventration can be divided in 2 groups, the congenital eventration, where the diaphragm is devoid of mucles and only a membrane is separating the abdominal from the pleural cavity; and the acquired one where the phrenic nerve is damaged, usually due to birth injury; but it can also be caused by any other trauma (Bernado et aI., 1961; Bisono et aI., 1970) such as surgical procedures at the time of thoracotomy, the so called iatrogenic  eventration (Jewett et aI., 1964).