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Rare case of intrathoracic stomach in a 10-year-old child

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An intrathoracic stomach is the end stage of a hiatal hernial diaphragm and has a very low incidence. Frequently, the diagnosis is made incidentally by endoscopic or radiographic investigations. There could be no clinical symptoms; however, an intrathoracic stomach could be life-threatening. In this case, we have reported a rare case of intrathoracic stomach in a 10-year-old child and that too on the right side which is extremely rare and not reported in the literature till date.

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  1. Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Queens NRI Hospital, Gurudwara lane, Seethammadhara, Visakhapatnam, -530013, India

    Jaideep Kumar Trivedi, Pola Ravi Chandrahas, Kiran Tanety & Rama Rao

  2. Department of Oncosurgery, Queens NRI Hospital, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India

    Jakkula Kishore

  3. Department of Radiodiagnosis, Maharajah’s Institute of Medical Sciences, Vizianagaram, Andhra Pradesh, India

    Dandina Mahesh

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Trivedi, J.K., Kishore, J., Chandrahas, P.R. et al. Rare case of intrathoracic stomach in a 10-year-old child. Indian J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 31, 314–315 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12055-015-0388-z

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