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1. Non-surgical causes of pneumoperitoneum--characteristic 'Rigler's sign' in a chest x-ray due to pneumothorax with a diaphragmatic hernia

Author

Marc George, Suchitra Chinthapalli, and Frances Dockery

Subjects
Male, medicine.medical_specialty, medicine.medical_treatment, Diaphragmatic breathing, Asymptomatic, Pneumoperitoneum, medicine, Humans, Hernia, Diaphragmatic hernia, Mechanical ventilation, Aged, 80 and over, Hernia, Diaphragmatic, business.industry, Pneumothorax, General Medicine, medicine.disease, Surgery, medicine.anatomical_structure, Abdomen, Radiography, Thoracic, Radiology, medicine.symptom, business
Abstract

Rigler's sign is a radiological sign of free intraperitoneal air, generally from a perforated viscus. It is the appearance of air on both sides of the bowel wall due to a large quantity of free air in the abdomen. It is important to be aware of the non-surgical causes of this appearance, one of which we describe here. An 87-year-old man whose only medical history was of a long-standing, seemingly asymptomatic, diaphagramatic hernia (figure 1, preoperative film), underwent a total hip replacement with …

Published
2012

2. Non-surgical causes of pneumoperitoneum—characteristic ‘Rigler's sign’ in a chest x-ray due to pneumothorax with a diaphragmatic hernia.

Author

Frances Dockery, Marc George, and Suchitra Chinthapalli

Subjects
*CHEST (Anatomy), *PNEUMOTHORAX, *HERNIOGRAPHY, *PNEUMOPERITONEUM, *ANESTHESIA
Abstract

The article presents a case report of an 87-year-old male patient with Rigler's sign found in a chest x-ray due to non-surgical pneumothorax with a diaphragmatic hernia. Based on repeat chest x-ray, pneumothorax and secondary pneumoperitoneum with subdiaphragmatic air and Rigler's sign. This condition is seen as a result of mechanical ventilation drug anesthesia and the gross herniation of the left hemidiaphragm.

Published
2012
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