A Rare presentation of Diaphragmatic Eventration in an old man

A Rare Case Mimicking Pleural Effusion

“…Congenital diaphragmatic eventration is a very rare entity in adults and there are very few cases reported with congenital eventration of diaphragm in adults with wandering spleen located besides the heart. 1,2 The diaphragm is thinned out and permanently elevated, but keeps its continuity and attachments to the costal margins, which differentiates it from diaphragmatic hernia. Dillon and colleagues 3 reported that 14/201 (7%) of diaphragmatic defects were due to eventration.…”