Chest in a newborn with left congenital diaphragmatic hernia | Figure 1

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Cincinnati Children's Radiology

Chest in a newborn with left congenital diaphragmatic hernia shows multiple bubbly lucencies occupying the left hemithorax and displacing the heart and mediastinum towards the right. The stomach and nasogastric tube extend into the left hemithorax. A congenital diaphragmatic hernia is a developmental defect of the diaphragm that allows variable amounts of the abdominal organs to herniate into the chest. Prognosis depends on the amount of pulmonary development. This can be affected by the size and amount of the abdominal content that has herniated into the chest. #ThoraxThursday #ThoracicThursday

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