İstanbul Üniversitesi Cerrahpaşa Tıp Fakültesi, Kalp ve Damar Cerrahisi AD,İstanbul

Diaphragma paralysis and evantration is a rare clinical picture in adults. It decreases the ventilation function in infants and adults by 25%. Patients and infants who have significant pulmonary dysfunction cannot tolerate diaphragma paralysis or evantration. For this reason, diaphragma plication is required in these patients. Lung expansion is easily achieved by performing diaphragma plication. In this article, we present our experience in the light of recent literature, in a 46-year-old female patient, who developed diaphragma paralysis and diaphragma evantration after left supraclavicular lymphadenopathy biopsy due to tuberculosis whom we performed thoracoscopy- assisted minithorachotomy together with diaphragma plication.