Condition after diaphragmatic hernia

    Newborn with left diaphragmatic hernia, after surgery, scheduled for control ultrasound.

    At ultrasound: in the lower third of the left pleural cavity a small amount of free fluid(pleural effusion) around the airless segment of a lung; in the left upper quadrant of the abdomen there is an atypical pattern of the left subdiaphragmatic space - bowel surrounded by the free fluid is visualized above the spleen.

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