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Figure1: Characteristic image of upside-down stomach; it is an extreme form of paraesophageal hernia in which the entire stomach has herniated and rotated upward through the diaphragm into the mediastinum. A large volume gastric hiatus hernia containing the body and antrum of the stomach is seen with air-fluid level within. Left arrow points at antrum and the right at oesophagus.