Air in the Breast: A Rare Cause of Iatrogenic Pneumomastia

Air in the breast tissue (pneumomastia) is a rare finding, more so without any history of procedures on the breast. We report the case of an 80-year-old lady who was found to have foci of gas in her right breast on a CT scan. On exclusion of other possible causes for the same, it was concluded that...

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Autores principales: Paulraj, Shweta, Ashok Kumar, Prashanth, Sekhon, Navharsh, Gambhir, Harvir Singh S
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
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Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7336588/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32642360
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.8447
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description Air in the breast tissue (pneumomastia) is a rare finding, more so without any history of procedures on the breast. We report the case of an 80-year-old lady who was found to have foci of gas in her right breast on a CT scan. On exclusion of other possible causes for the same, it was concluded that the air in the breast tissue was secondary to a peripheral intravenous line placement. To our knowledge, this is the first reported case of pneumomastia as a complication of peripheral intravenous line placement.
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spelling pubmed-73365882020-07-07 Air in the Breast: A Rare Cause of Iatrogenic Pneumomastia Paulraj, Shweta Ashok Kumar, Prashanth Sekhon, Navharsh Gambhir, Harvir Singh S Cureus Internal Medicine Air in the breast tissue (pneumomastia) is a rare finding, more so without any history of procedures on the breast. We report the case of an 80-year-old lady who was found to have foci of gas in her right breast on a CT scan. On exclusion of other possible causes for the same, it was concluded that the air in the breast tissue was secondary to a peripheral intravenous line placement. To our knowledge, this is the first reported case of pneumomastia as a complication of peripheral intravenous line placement. Cureus 2020-06-04 /pmc/articles/PMC7336588/ /pubmed/32642360 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.8447 Text en Copyright © 2020, Paulraj 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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Air in the Breast: A Rare Cause of Iatrogenic Pneumomastia
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title_short Air in the Breast: A Rare Cause of Iatrogenic Pneumomastia
title_sort air in the breast: a rare cause of iatrogenic pneumomastia
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