Prevalence of Incidental Bochdalek's Hernia in a Large Adult Population
Mark E. Mullins1,
Jeffrey Stein,
Sanjay S. Saini and
Peter R. Mueller
1
All authors: Department of Radiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
02114, and Department of Radiology, Founders House, Massachusetts General
Hospital, Boston, MA 02114.
Fig. 1.Unilateral Bochdalek's hernia in 63-year-old woman. Axial CT
scan with lung windows shows small fatcontaining left-sided Bochdalek's hernia
(straight arrow). No solid organs are contained within hernia.
Posterolateral location of diaphragmatic interruption (curved arrow)
is easily seen.
Fig. 2.Bilateral Bochdalek's hernia in 74-year-old woman. Axial CT
scan with soft-tissue windows shows bilateral Bochdalek's hernias
(arrows). Left hernia contains fat and portions of spleen; right
hernia contains fat only.
Fig. 3.Bochdalek's hernia containing stomach and pancreas in
29-year-old woman. Axial CT scan with soft-tissue windows shows fat, pancreas,
and enteric tract (stomach) containing left-sided Bochdalek's hernia
(arrow). There was no intestinal obstruction. Posterolateral location
of diaphragmatic interruption is easily seen.