Cervical pulmonary herniation due to blunt chest trauma

Spinal cord compression by a pulmonary hernia

“…Compression of the spinal cord by the lung is very rare. In the brief review of the literature, the authors did not retrieve any pulmonary traumatic hernia through the intercostal space, 6 diaphragm, 7 and cervical area, 8 and a search in PubMed also failed to retrieve any case of spinal cord compression due to a traumatic pulmonary hernia. The authors found only one case 9 of a traumatic jejunal hernia between the L1 and L2 bodies in a 3-week-old infant, but without spinal compression; the trauma mechanism was a spinal hyperextension.…”