Weekly Chest CasesArchive of Old Cases

Case No : 607 Date 2009-06-14

  • Courtesy of Chang Hyun Lee / Seoul National University Hospital
  • Age/Sex 72 / F
  • Chief ComplaintIncidentally found in routine health check-up
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Diagnosis With Brief Discussion

Diagnosis
Morgagni's Hernia
Radiologic Findings
Frontal and lateral chest radiographs show air-filled soft tissue opacity in the anterior right cardiophrenic angle. Omentum and transverse colon is seen in the right cardiophrenic angle on chest CT.
Brief Review
Hernias through the foramen of Morgagni can be encountered at any age. They are due to herniation of abdominal contents through the diaphragm between its costal and sternal attachments. The hernia noramllly develops in teh right anterior cardiophranic sulcus, presumable because the heart hinders herniation on the left. Morgagni hernias are normally small and often contain only liver and omentum, in which case they are of homogeneous soft tissue density on chest radiographs. The margins are smooth and rounded, and the primary differential diagnoses include pericardial cysts, prominent cardiac fat pads, and focal pleural or pulmonary parenchymal masses. When hernia contains bowel, usually transverse colon, the diagnosis is readily made based on chest radiographs.
References
1. Hansel D et al. Imaging of diseases of the chest. Elsevier Mosby 2005:1131-1132.
Keywords
Diaphragm, Congenital,

No. of Applicants : 112

▶ Correct Answer : 92/112,  82.1%
  • - Kasturba Medical College Manipal , India Paresh Desai
  • - Deptt of Radiodiagnosis & Imaging, PGIMER chandigarh , India Ram Galwa
  • - Oita University, Faculty of Medicine , Japan Fumito Okada
  • - Osaka University , Japan Osamu Honda
  • - Seoul National University Bundang Hospital , Korea (South) Kwang Nam Jin
  • - McGill University Health Centre , Canada Amr Ajlan
  • - CHRU Lille , France Benjamin Damarey
  • - hospital Sao Paulo , Brazil israel missrie
  • - PingTung Christian Hospital ,China Medical University ,Taiwan,R.O.C. , Taiwan Jun Jun Yeh
  • - SMC , Korea (South) Jihoon Cha
  • - EWHA WOMANS MOKDONG UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL , Korea (South) YOOKYUNG KIM
  • - tanta university-egypt , Egypt abdou abdou
  • - Louisiana State University - Shreveport , United States Carlos Previgliano
  • - KING KHALID UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL,RIYADH , Saudi Arabia NABIL GHALEB
  • - Diskapi Yildirim Beyazit Hospital, Ankara , Turkey Meric Tuzun
  • - Univ. of Miami/Jackson Memorial , United States mantosh rattan
  • - Institute of Chest Diseases,Calicut , India sijith raghavan
  • - MD SKNMC & GH,Pune,Maharashtra, INDIA , India Sushant Bhadane
  • - Seoul National University Hospital , Korea (South) Sang Min Lee
  • - kims,narkatpally , India k bhaskar
  • - Government Medical college, Kozhikkode , India jineesh thottath
  • - King Abdul Aziz Hospital , Saudi Arabia Ahmed FathiEid
  • - Das Allgemeine Krankenhaus Celle , Germany Davis Chiramel
  • - SAISEIKAI KURIHASHI HOSPITAL , Japan YASUO OKUBO
  • - Shinsegye Rad Clinic, Daegu , Korea (South) Gi Beom Kim
  • - IRSA La Rochelle France , France Denis Chabassiere
  • - Apollo Gleneagles hosp kolkata , India SALIM PARVEZ
  • - Aba Prefecture People Hospital竊ŒSichuan Maerkang竊Œchina , China pu peng
  • - Barnard Institute of Radiology , India Bhuvaneswaran N
  • - AMRITA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES , India sivasubramanian srinivasan
  • - The Armed Forces Daegu Hospital , Korea (South) Hyungwoo Oh
  • - POPOVO HOSPITAL , Bulgaria VLADISLAV RUSINOV
  • - Medical College Chest Hospital,Thrissur,Kerala , India Raveendran TK
  • - Hanmaeum Hospital , Korea (South) Kwon Hyoung Kim
  • - AMC health promotion cencer , Korea (South) Hanna Noh
  • - CHU Grenoble , France Fabrice Bing
  • - CHU caen , France nicolas gautier
  • - Soonchunhyang university hospital, Bucheon , Korea (South) Hyelin Kim
  • - DCA, , India Rajesh Gothi
  • - Father Muller Medical College , Mangalore , India nabil mahmood
  • - InRad - HCFMUSP S Paulo , Brazil Natanael Ahn
  • - Vital Imaging Centre, Mumbai,India , India Ganesh Agrawal
  • - G.R.M.C. GWALIOR , India anup gupta
  • - Seoul Nationial University Bundang Hospital , Korea (South) Kyoung Jin Oh
  • - jaslok hospital & research centre mumbai , India JAINENDRA JAIN
  • - Yashoda Superspeciality hospital , India Pravin Mahadevappa
  • - Beaulieu clinic Geneva , Switzerland gilles GENIN
  • - Hangang Sacred Heart Hospital , Korea (South) Eil Seong Lee
  • - Mackay Memorial Hospital , Taiwan Sheng-Yeh Shen
  • - john h stroger hsp , United States dheeraj reddy gopireddy
  • - EKH-Berlin , Germany Michael Weber
  • - Ondokuz Mayis University , Turkey Cetin Celenk
  • - Changhua Christian Hospital , Taiwan Chia-Fu Tsai
  • - CH de la C�te Basque , France Paul ARDILOUZE
  • - SRI RAVI NURSING HOME,,WARANGAL , India PAVAN KUMAR VODITHALA PAVAN KUMAR VODITHALA
  • - Trakya Univercity School of Medicine , Turkey Armagan Sarac
  • - care hospital , India chary d
  • - sunder lal jain hospital , India sanjeev vachher
  • - Cairo University , Egypt Mamdouh Eissa
  • - CHRU lille , France manuel toledano
  • - Nirman hitech diagnostic centre , India minal seth
  • - CH Sud Rnion , Reunion jean-baptiste Noel
  • - IRCCS Istituto Oncologico Bari , Italy Carlo Florio
  • - clinique de rochefort , France viviane pages
  • - assam medical college , India girish sr
  • - ROHINI Scan Center. Ambattur, Chennai , India Umapathi Mahesh
  • - Pusan National University Hospital , Korea (South) YU LI SOL
  • - CHUV, Lausanne , Switzerland Andrea Ojanguren
  • - Bundang CHA hospital , Korea (South) Jung Jin Young
  • - Asan Medical Center , Korea (South) Hye Jeon Hwang
  • - Ewha Womans University Mok-dong Hospital , Korea (South) JU HEE LEE
  • - Armed Force Capital Hospital , Korea (South) Dae Kun Oh
  • - KMC,Manipal , India satish maddukuri
  • - Paramount Diagnostic & Research Centre , India Mahavir Swami
  • - PITTWATER RADIOLOGY , Australia Julie Arora
  • - PITTWATER RADIOLOGY , Australia Saurabh Khandelwal
  • - NASA SCANS , India RAKESH BHATIA
  • - Yashoda Super Speciality hospital , India Ramesh Pandey
  • - Retd. Prof Thoracic Surgery B.J.MEDIDCAL COLLEGE Punr India , India Bankim Amin
  • - , India Sumeet Bhargava
  • - Seoul Nationial University Bundang Hospital , Korea (South) Hee Seok Choi
  • - Consultant Radiologist, London , United Kingdom Shekhar Banavali
  • - clinique de SAVOIE , France, Metropolitan gay-depassier philippe
  • - Hospital Sotiria, Athens, Greece , Greece Vasilios Tzilas
  • - Homs National Hospital , Syria Rami Abou Zalaf
  • - IRSA , France jean BIGOT
  • - Trakya University School of Medicine , Turkey Umut Ugur
  • - UZ GASTHUISBERG , Belgium Johan COOLEN
  • - chp st martin , France Mariotte benoit
  • - CHU GRENOBLE FRANCE , France anne-line MORONI
  • - Soonchunhyang University Cheonan Hospital , Korea (South) Park Sang Hyun
  • - Gimpo Woori Hospital , Korea (South) Son Youl Lee
▶ Correct Answer as Differential Diagnosis : 5/112,  4.5%
  • - Assam medical college , India Karunakaran M
  • - Kangnam Sacred Heart Hospital , Korea (South) Jaewon Kim
  • - NOUR EL-ISLAM RADIOLOGY CENTER , Egypt Elsayed Mousa
  • - Hopital du SacrCoeur , Canada Abraham Bohadana
  • - Toyama University Hospital, Laboratory of Pathology , Japan TANAKA TOMONORI
▶ Semi-Correct Answer : 7/112,  6.3%
  • - NTUH , Taiwan Kuei-pin Chung
  • - Chungnam national university hospital , Korea (South) Jeoung Eun Lee
  • - Chaeil Clinic , Korea (South) sunkyung lim
  • - eph ain beida , Algeria bourahli monia
  • - , Korea (South) Daekeon Lim
  • - xi , China qiu zhang
  • - Army force wonju hospital , Korea (South) seung moon Joo
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