Eventration of the diaphragm

Abstract

Four patients with eventration of the diaphragm with possible volvulus of the gastrointestinal tract are illustrated. Three were operated upon and the diagnosis confirmed two cases of volvulus of the stomach and a third of the small intestine. In the only unoperated case the possibility of a chronic gastric volvulus with the eventration could not be ruled out. The possible relationship of the volvulus to the eventration is discussed and the rationale of surgical correction of the eventration even in the symptom free patient is emphasised.