Cervicofacial Surgical Emphysema following Tonsillectomy

We report the case of a patient who developed cervicofacial subcutaneous emphysema following a routine tonsillectomy. An 18-year-old male with swallowing difficulties underwent a tonsillectomy and developed swelling of the right side of his neck and face 36 hours after surgery. A neck X-ray revealed...

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Autores principales: Yelnoorkar, Samir, Issing, Wolfgang
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2014
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4034725/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24900934
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/746152
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description We report the case of a patient who developed cervicofacial subcutaneous emphysema following a routine tonsillectomy. An 18-year-old male with swallowing difficulties underwent a tonsillectomy and developed swelling of the right side of his neck and face 36 hours after surgery. A neck X-ray revealed subcutaneous emphysema. Unlike similar previously published cases, there were no postoperative issues of coughing, straining, or use of positive pressure ventilation. The complication also occurred after a considerable length of time. Further complications may include pneumothorax and pneumomediastinum and these should be excluded.
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spelling pubmed-40347252014-06-04 Cervicofacial Surgical Emphysema following Tonsillectomy Yelnoorkar, Samir Issing, Wolfgang Case Rep Otolaryngol Case Report We report the case of a patient who developed cervicofacial subcutaneous emphysema following a routine tonsillectomy. An 18-year-old male with swallowing difficulties underwent a tonsillectomy and developed swelling of the right side of his neck and face 36 hours after surgery. A neck X-ray revealed subcutaneous emphysema. Unlike similar previously published cases, there were no postoperative issues of coughing, straining, or use of positive pressure ventilation. The complication also occurred after a considerable length of time. Further complications may include pneumothorax and pneumomediastinum and these should be excluded. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2014 2014-05-08 /pmc/articles/PMC4034725/ /pubmed/24900934 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/746152 Text en Copyright © 2014 S. Yelnoorkar and W. Issing. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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