Department of Emergency Medicine

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Category: Visual Diagnosis

Title: What's the Diagnosis? Case submitted by Bethany Radin

Posted: 5/27/2013 by Haney Mallemat, MD
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Question

9 month-old presents with wheezing and the CXR is shown below. What's the diagnosis?

 

 

Answer

Congenital anterior diaphragmatic defects with herniated bowel.

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