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case_images: Preoperative chest radiograph clearly demonstrating mediastinal loops of bowel.
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case_images: An initial chest radiograph (Fig. 1) showed dilated loops of bowel located centrally in the thoracic cavity, obscuring the cardiac silhouette, with opacification of the lower lobe of the left lung.
case_images: A chest computed tomography scan demonstrating mediastinal loops of bowel.
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case_images: These findings were suspicious for CDH, which was confirmed by a thoracic CT scan (Fig. 2).
case_images: Intraoperative reduction of herniated bowel from within the pericardium.
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case_images: Within the pericardium we found the hernia sac, which was also incised, revealing loops of small bowel that were incarcerated, but not strangulated (Fig. 3).