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Successful utilization of a video-assisted thoracic approach to repair morgagni's hernia: Report of a case

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We describe herein the successful utilization of a video-assisted thoracic surgical approach to repair Morgagni's hernia. The patient was a 62-year-old woman in whom a routine chest X-ray had revealed an asymptomatic mass, which was presumed to be a pericardial lipoma or Morgagni's hernia. The video-assisted thoracic surgical approach was combined with a right submammary minithoracotomy to successfully repair the hernia without performing a laparotomy. The patient's postoperative course was uneventful and she was discharged 14 days after surgery. Thus, we believe that video-assisted thoracic surgery may be a useful and effective method for repairing Morgagni's hernia.

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  1. First Department of Surgery, Nagasaki University School of Medicine, 1-7-1 Sakamoto, 852, Nagasaki, Japan

    Shinji Akamine, Katsunobu Kawahara, Akihiro Nakamura, Takao Takahashi, Satoshi Yamamoto, Hiroyoshi Ayabe & Masao Tomita

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Akamine, S., Kawahara, K., Nakamura, A. et al. Successful utilization of a video-assisted thoracic approach to repair morgagni's hernia: Report of a case. Surg Today 25, 654–656 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00311444

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