Unusual presentation of spontaneous pneumomediastinum: a case report

The diagnosis of spontaneous pneumomediastinum in an acute hospital setting can present as a challenge. We present a case of 32 year Caucasian male with gradual swelling of his face and neck with increasing hoarseness of voice. He was treated for anaphylaxis with little improvement. He underwent a v...

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Autores principales: Qureshi, Sheharyar Asif, Tilyard, Andrew
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2607260/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19025631
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-1-349
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description The diagnosis of spontaneous pneumomediastinum in an acute hospital setting can present as a challenge. We present a case of 32 year Caucasian male with gradual swelling of his face and neck with increasing hoarseness of voice. He was treated for anaphylaxis with little improvement. He underwent a video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery procedure (VATS) with a definite diagnosis of sub pleural bleb.
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spelling pubmed-26072602008-12-24 Unusual presentation of spontaneous pneumomediastinum: a case report Qureshi, Sheharyar Asif Tilyard, Andrew Cases J Case Report The diagnosis of spontaneous pneumomediastinum in an acute hospital setting can present as a challenge. We present a case of 32 year Caucasian male with gradual swelling of his face and neck with increasing hoarseness of voice. He was treated for anaphylaxis with little improvement. He underwent a video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery procedure (VATS) with a definite diagnosis of sub pleural bleb. BioMed Central 2008-11-24 /pmc/articles/PMC2607260/ /pubmed/19025631 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-1-349 Text en Copyright © 2008 Qureshi and Tilyard; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Unusual presentation of spontaneous pneumomediastinum: a case report
title Unusual presentation of spontaneous pneumomediastinum: a case report
title_full Unusual presentation of spontaneous pneumomediastinum: a case report
title_fullStr Unusual presentation of spontaneous pneumomediastinum: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Unusual presentation of spontaneous pneumomediastinum: a case report
title_short Unusual presentation of spontaneous pneumomediastinum: a case report
title_sort unusual presentation of spontaneous pneumomediastinum: a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2607260/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19025631
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-1-349
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