Spontaneous Chest Wall Hernias: Intercostal Lung Hernia and Inverted Intercostal Hernia

Abstract

Intercostal lung hernia and inverted intercostal hernia are rare chest wall hernias usually asymptomatic and detected incidentally on chest radiograph. In this case report, we discussed here on the chest radiograph and computed tomography imaging findings of two cases of these rare hernias with an emphasis being in differential diagnosis of chest tumors.

Keywords

• chest wall
• intercostal lung hernia
• inverted intercostal hernia
• spontaneous