Ajay H Bhandarwar, MS, Chintan B Patel, MS, Pravin N Tungenwar, MS, Amol N Wagh, MS, Saurabh S Gandhi, MS. Grant Government Medical College & Sir J. J. Group of Hospitals, Mumbai, India
Tension gastrothorax with intrathoracic gastric volvulus is a fatal life threatening condition.
Early diagnosis and emergency endoscopic definitive surgery is plausible for successful outcome in a young haemodynamically stabilized patient.
Literature search revealed this to be the first case treated by combined laparoscopy and thoracoscopy approach in Bochdalek hernia presenting in adulthood.