Spontaneous Mediastinal Emphysema

The author presents a case of spontaneous mediastinal emphysema, also known as the Hamman’s syndrome. This case presentation highlights the common features of spontaneous mediastinal emphysema and reminds the clinician to have an index of suspicion for this diagnosis.

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Autores principales: Singh, Devina, Kumar, Sanjana, Stead, Thor S, Ganti, Latha
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2018
Materias:
Emergency Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5969793/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29805938
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.2369
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spelling pubmed-59697932018-05-27 Spontaneous Mediastinal Emphysema Singh, Devina Kumar, Sanjana Stead, Thor S Ganti, Latha Cureus Emergency Medicine The author presents a case of spontaneous mediastinal emphysema, also known as the Hamman’s syndrome. This case presentation highlights the common features of spontaneous mediastinal emphysema and reminds the clinician to have an index of suspicion for this diagnosis. Cureus 2018-03-26 /pmc/articles/PMC5969793/ /pubmed/29805938 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.2369 Text en Copyright © 2018, Singh et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Singh, Devina
Kumar, Sanjana
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Ganti, Latha
Spontaneous Mediastinal Emphysema
title Spontaneous Mediastinal Emphysema
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title_fullStr Spontaneous Mediastinal Emphysema
title_full_unstemmed Spontaneous Mediastinal Emphysema
title_short Spontaneous Mediastinal Emphysema
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topic Emergency Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5969793/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29805938
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.2369
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