Surgical treatment of more common types of diaphragmatic hernia: esophageal hiatus, traumatic, pleuroperitoneal hiatus, congenital absence and foramen of Morgagni: report of 404 cases. Ann. Surg ...

Diaphragmatic hernia involving the esophageal hiatus is a common condition. In some degree it can be demonstrated in 2 per cent to 6 per cent of all radiographic examinations of the upper ...

Ninety-five percent are of the sliding type, and 5 percent are of the para-esophageal type. Since the sliding type predominates, let’s focus on this form. The sliding hiatal hernia consists of the ...

A sliding hiatal hernia occurs when the gastroesophageal junction protrudes above the diaphragm. A paraesophageal hiatal hernia occurs when a part of the stomach protrudes through the esophageal ...

THE DIAPHRAGM is a muscular sheet that separates the chest cavity (containing the heart, lungs, esophagus and other organs) from the abdominal cavity (containing the stomach, large and small ...

My 82-year-old mother has a hiatal hernia that gives her endless problems, ... the junction between the esophagus and the stomach lies just below the diaphragm, the muscular […] ...

After traversing the diaphragm at the diaphragmatic hiatus (T10 vertebral level) the esophagus extends through the gastroesophageal junction to end at the orifice of the cardia of the stomach (T11 ...

Dear Dr. Roach • My father was recently diagnosed with a type 4 hiatal hernia. His doctor said that this can be very serious and he may need to have Hiatal hernia is larger than normal hole in ...