A 71-year-old white male was referred to our Department for thoracic pain. Five months ago the patient had a right blunt thoracic trauma, without evidence of pneumothorax or haemothorax. A soft swelling in the lower part of the right haemithorax was only evident at presentation.
Chest-X ray showed a pulmonary herniation (Fig. 1) , confirmed by thoracic CT scan (Fig. 2) .
Fig. 1
Chest X-ray showing a right chronic pulmonary hernia.
Fig. 2
Thoracic CT scan (reconstruction of the image) confirming the hernia in the lower part of the right haemitorax.
The patient was asymptomatic and for this cause no surgical procedures were performed for the reconstruction of the chest wall.
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