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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]
Overview
Historical Perspective
In 1579, Ambroise Paré made the first description of diaphragmatic rupture, in a French artillery captain who had been shot eight months before his death from complications of the rupture.[1] Using autopsies, Paré also described diaphragmatic rupture in people who had suffered blunt and penetrating trauma.[1] Reports of diaphragmatic herniation due to injury date back at least as far as the 17th century.[1] Petit was the first to establish the difference between acquired and congenital diaphragmatic hernia, which results from a congenital malformation of the diaphragm. In 1888, Naumann repaired a hernia of the stomach into the left chest that was caused by trauma.[1]