Rare Association of Pneumomediastinum With Bilateral Pneumothorax

Pneumomediastinum with bilateral pneumothorax is a clinical entity caused by infections, malignancy, or trauma, as in our case. Some patients present with pneumomediastinum secondary to trauma have esophageal, laryngeal, or tracheal injuries. A 16-year-old boy presented in the emergency department w...

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Autores principales: Saleem, Noman, Saleem, Rabia, Saleem, Zara, Ajmal, Usman
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
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Emergency Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7805511/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33489509
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.12091
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description Pneumomediastinum with bilateral pneumothorax is a clinical entity caused by infections, malignancy, or trauma, as in our case. Some patients present with pneumomediastinum secondary to trauma have esophageal, laryngeal, or tracheal injuries. A 16-year-old boy presented in the emergency department with complaints of shortness of breath and bruise on the chest after a history of the road traffic accident. Bilateral chest tube thoracotomy was done. Pneumomediastinum was suspected on X-ray chest and confirmed on computed tomography of the chest, which showed bilateral pneumothorax with pneumomediastinum. The patient was conservatively managed and discharged after 10 days.
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spelling pubmed-78055112021-01-21 Rare Association of Pneumomediastinum With Bilateral Pneumothorax Saleem, Noman Saleem, Rabia Saleem, Zara Ajmal, Usman Cureus Emergency Medicine Pneumomediastinum with bilateral pneumothorax is a clinical entity caused by infections, malignancy, or trauma, as in our case. Some patients present with pneumomediastinum secondary to trauma have esophageal, laryngeal, or tracheal injuries. A 16-year-old boy presented in the emergency department with complaints of shortness of breath and bruise on the chest after a history of the road traffic accident. Bilateral chest tube thoracotomy was done. Pneumomediastinum was suspected on X-ray chest and confirmed on computed tomography of the chest, which showed bilateral pneumothorax with pneumomediastinum. The patient was conservatively managed and discharged after 10 days. Cureus 2020-12-15 /pmc/articles/PMC7805511/ /pubmed/33489509 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.12091 Text en Copyright © 2020, Saleem 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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Rare Association of Pneumomediastinum With Bilateral Pneumothorax
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title_short Rare Association of Pneumomediastinum With Bilateral Pneumothorax
title_sort rare association of pneumomediastinum with bilateral pneumothorax
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