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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.



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  		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.

 


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  		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.

 


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  		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.

 

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