[Chilaiditi's syndrome].

Chilaiditi's sign secondary to Richter's hernia or Chilaiditi's syndrome?

Chilaiditi's sign and syndrome seem similar but are actually different entities, difficult to distinguish from each other. A 60-year-old female presented with a clinical scenario of intestinal obstruction, which was thought to be Chilaiditi's syndrome because of the unusual impression of gas under the diaphragm, but was confirmed as Chilaiditi's sign after laparotomy. The interposition of dilat...

Chilaiditi's syndrome with associated angina.

Symptomatic hepato-diaphragmatic interposition of a bowel loop or Chilaiditi's syndrome [Pronounced "Ky-La-Ditty"] is a very rare (0.1-0.25%) anatomical condition most often found by chance. Its described symptoms range from intermittent, mild abdominal pain and dyspepsia to acute intestinal obstruction. We report a case of acquired hepato-diaphragmatic migration of the hepatic flexure of the c...

The liver and Chilaiditi’s syndrome: Significance of hepatic surface grooves

Chilaiditi's syndrome describes a symptomatic patient with radiographic findings of interposed colon between the diaphragm and right lobe of liver. It may mimic a pneumoperitoneum on plain radiographs. We present a case in which Chilaiditis' syndrome was entertained, delaying a decision for laparotomy. This case reinforces the diagnostic difficulty associated with Chilaiditi's syndrome, and it ...

Chilaiditi's syndrome presenting as acute abdomen.

A possible cause of misinterpretation on radionuclide imaging: Chilaiditi's syndrome.

The authors of this work present two patients, diagnosed with lymphoma and prostate cancer, referred to nuclear medicine department for a gallium-67 scan and a bone scan, respectively. The abnormal accumulation of the radioactivity gave rise suspicion for possible other pathologies. Successive computed tomographic imaging revealed that the patients had had Chilaiditi's syndrome. The authors pre...