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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.