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Volume 139, Issue 2 , Pages e4-e6 , February 2010

Acute torsion of the left lower lobe caused by chronic traumatic hernia of the diaphragm

Yugo Tanaka, MD
- Department of General Thoracic Surgery, National Hospital Organization Kobe Medical Center, Kobe, Japan
- Address for reprints: Yugo Tanaka, MD, Department of General Thoracic Surgery, National Hospital Organization Kobe Medical Center, 3-1-1, Nishiochiai, Suma-ku, Kobe, Japan, 654-0155.
Wataru Nishio, MD
- Division of Thoracic Surgery, Kobe University Graduate School of Medicine, Kobe, Japan
Daisuke Hokka, MD
- Department of General Thoracic Surgery, National Hospital Organization Kobe Medical Center, Kobe, Japan
Shiro Kawamura, MD
- Department of Surgery, National Hospital Organization Kobe Medical Center, Kobe, Japan
Etsuji Shimada, MD
- Department of Surgery, National Hospital Organization Kobe Medical Center, Kobe, Japan
Shuuichi Okumura, MD
- Department of Surgery, National Hospital Organization Kobe Medical Center, Kobe, Japan

Received 16 April 2008 ,Revised 14 May 2008 ,Accepted 26 May 2008.

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