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CASE REPORT
Intermittent swelling in the chest; a case of spontaneous intermittent lung herniation
  1. Umesh Bangalore Lakshminarayana1,
  2. Michael Cowen2,
  3. Jack A Kastelik1,
  4. Jaymin B Morjaria1
  1. 1Department of Academic Respiratory Medicine, University of Hull, Castle Hill Hospital, Cottingham, UK
  2. 2Department of Cardio-thoracic Surgery, Castle Hill Hospital, Cottingham, UK
  1. Correspondence to Dr Umesh Bangalore Lakshminarayana, blumesh{at}yahoo.com

Summary

Herniation of the lung is uncommon and occurs due to protrusion of the lung beyond the confines of the thoracic cavity through an abnormal opening in the chest wall. Any condition associated with raised intrathoracic pressure or that which weakens the thoracic wall may result in lung herniation. We present a case of spontaneous lung herniation which was managed successfully by minimally invasive thoracic surgery.

https://doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2013-201380

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