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Laparoscopic surgery has emerged as the standard of care for the elective operative management of symptomatic gallbladder disease. The surgical literature is now beginning to accumulate sufficient case numbers that more clearly define the associated morbidity of this type of surgery. This article reports an instance of iatrogenic injury to the right muscular hemidiaphragm and subsequent hernia after laparoscopic cholecystectomy.
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Received: 22 July 1998/Accepted: 13 October 1998
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Armstrong, P., Miller, S. & Brown, G. Diaphragmatic hernia seen as a late complication of laparoscopic cholecystectomy. Surg Endosc 13, 817–818 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/s004649901108
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s004649901108