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Diaphragmatic Problems for the Emergency Surgeon

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Understand basic diaphragmatic anatomy

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Division of Trauma, Emergency Surgery, and Critical Care, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA

    Peter J. Fagenholz MD (Assistant Professor) & George C. Velmahos MD, PhD, MSEd (Professor Chief)

  2. Surgery, Division of Trauma, Boston University School of Medicine, Acute Care Surgery and Surgical Critical Care, Boston, MA, USA

    George Kasotakis MD, MPH, FACS (Assistant Professor)

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Correspondence to George C. Velmahos MD, PhD, MSEd .

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Surgical Research Department, Clinical Division for General Surgery, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria

    Abe Fingerhut

  2. Department of Abdominal Surgery, University of Helsinki Meilahti Hospital, Helsinki, Finland

    Ari Leppäniemi

  3. Department of Surgery, University of California San Diego Health Sciences, San Diego, California, USA

    Raul Coimbra

  4. Division of General Surgery, University of Pittsburgh UPMC, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

    Andrew B. Peitzman

  5. R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center, University of Maryland Medical Center, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

    Thomas M. Scalea

  6. Emergency Surgery Unit, University Hospitals of Lyon Centre Hospitalier Lyon-Sud, Pierre-Bénite, France

    Eric J. Voiglio

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Fagenholz, P.J., Kasotakis, G., Velmahos, G.C. (2016). Diaphragmatic Problems for the Emergency Surgeon. In: Fingerhut, A., Leppäniemi, A., Coimbra, R., Peitzman, A., Scalea, T., Voiglio, E. (eds) Emergency Surgery Course (ESC®) Manual. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21338-5_21

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