RT Journal
A1 TRUESDALE PE
T1 HErnia of the diaphragm in children
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1929
FD November 16
VO 93
IS 20
SP 1538
OP 1544
DO 10.1001/jama.1929.02710200022006
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1929.02710200022006
AB It seems appropriate that the subject of diaphragmatic hernia should be discussed before the Section on Diseases of Children. The activities of pediatricians begin at the foundation of life. Nature's imperfections are carefully charted in the records of their patients. No anomaly within range of vision escapes detection. Yet search for internal defects is made only when there is evidence that leads one to suspect their presence or during an exploration of one of the body cavities either by operation or at autopsy. Unless the roentgen ray is used in the examination of children, anomalies of congenital origin, such as those of the diaphragm, remain concealed, and until at least a fluoroscopic examination of infants is made as a routine, we shall not know the incidence of either eventration or congenital hernia of the diaphragm.The diaphragm, dormant during fetal life, responds at birth. It ushers in the phenomena of