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Diaphragmatic hernia resulting from injury during microwave-assisted laparoscopic hepatectomy

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A 31-year-old woman underwent microwave-assisted laparoscopic hepatectomy of the left lateral segment for focal nodular hyperplasia on January 14, 1998. On September 9, 1998, she felt continuous left abdominal pain and was admitted to our hospital for further examination. An upper gastrointestinal series showed converging folds of the greater curvature of the upper third of the stomach and craniad displacement of this portion. Thoracic magnetic resonance imaging showed herniation of the stomach into the pleural cavity. The patient was referred to our department, where she underwent surgery for a diaphragmatic hernia. The fundus of the stomach had escaped into the left pleural cavity through a defect in the diaphragm near where laparoscopic hepatectomy had been performed. The stomach was returned to the peritoneal cavity and the defect sutured. The patient’s postoperative course was uneventful. Although diaphragmatic hernia after laparoscopic surgery is a rare complication, with the performance of more advanced laparoscopic procedures and the use of higher-technology tissue-destruction/hemostatic devices such as the microwave coagulator, more caution should be observed to prevent injury to adjacent organs such as the diaphragm.

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  1. Second Department of Surgery, Yokohama City University School of Medicine, 3-9 Fukuura, Kanazawa-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa 236-0004, Japan

    M. Sugita, K. Nagahori, T. Kudo, K. Yamanaka, R. Shizawa & N. Yoshimoto

  2. Department of Surgery, Yokohama Red Cross Hospital, 2-85 Negishi-cho, Naka-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa 231-0836, Japan

    Y. Obi & H. Shimada

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Sugita, M., Nagahori, K., Kudo, T. et al. Diaphragmatic hernia resulting from injury during microwave-assisted laparoscopic hepatectomy. Surg Endosc 17, 1849–1850 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00464-002-4554-1

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