Abstract
DELAYED diagnosis of traumatic diaphragmatic injuries may result in gastric or intestinal herniation and intestinal obstruction. 1,2 If the hernia becomes strangulated, ischemia, necrosis, and sepsis may develop. Pulmonary and cardiac complications occur because of compression of the lung and heart by the herniated organs or herniation of organs into the pericardial sac. 3-5 Rarely, perforation of herniated organs may lead to pneumothorax and pneumomediastinum. 6
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