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Mon Nov 24 01:16:35 GMT 2008

On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 8:07 PM, McSwain, Norman E Jr.
<nmcswai at tulane.edu>wrote:

> Tim
>
> Sorry for the late response but I was on in-house trauma call yesterday and
> had to nap this afternoon. Yes, I know I am a wimp
>
> As you know, Scott Frame (when he was a fellow with me) did some small
> animal research that demonstrated the almost 100% of the mice with a hole in
> the diaphragm that was the side of the diameter of the small bowel would
> develop a hernia. My personal experience (I know, poor data) we do not see
> as many hernias in humans.

I am not sure why

Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that we are bipedal creatures
and the position most of us are in most of the time allows for gravity to
aid in keeping our bowels in the proper compartment.  This is just a stab in
the dark and I could be wrong, but that would be my guess.

-- 
Stephen L. Richey, CRT
Aviation Injury Research Project Leader
Saginaw Valley State University
Work E-mail: slrichey at svsu.edu
Home Office Phone: 248-366-4452

"Hier stehe ich. Ich kann nicht anders. Gott helfe mir. Amen."- Martin
Luther, before the Diet of Worms, 16. April 1521

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