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A Rare Presentation of Asymptomatic Spontaneous Pneumomediastinum
Spontaneous pneumomediastinum is a rare condition characterized by interstitial air within the mediastinum without any obvious causative factors. It is most commonly found in young men, and the clinical presentation is typically associated with chest or neck pain and dyspnea. Objective findings can...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8020193/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33833916 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.13695 |
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description | Spontaneous pneumomediastinum is a rare condition characterized by interstitial air within the mediastinum without any obvious causative factors. It is most commonly found in young men, and the clinical presentation is typically associated with chest or neck pain and dyspnea. Objective findings can include subcutaneous emphysema of the neck and chest. Asymptomatic cases are exceedingly rare. In this report, we present the case of a 20-year-old woman who presented with acute psychosis and the incidental imaging finding of pneumomediastinum without any associated clinical signs or symptoms. |
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spelling | pubmed-80201932021-04-07 A Rare Presentation of Asymptomatic Spontaneous Pneumomediastinum Sun, Thomas Y Ferrara, Allison Cureus Internal Medicine Spontaneous pneumomediastinum is a rare condition characterized by interstitial air within the mediastinum without any obvious causative factors. It is most commonly found in young men, and the clinical presentation is typically associated with chest or neck pain and dyspnea. Objective findings can include subcutaneous emphysema of the neck and chest. Asymptomatic cases are exceedingly rare. In this report, we present the case of a 20-year-old woman who presented with acute psychosis and the incidental imaging finding of pneumomediastinum without any associated clinical signs or symptoms. Cureus 2021-03-04 /pmc/articles/PMC8020193/ /pubmed/33833916 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.13695 Text en Copyright © 2021, Sun 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. |
spellingShingle | Internal Medicine Sun, Thomas Y Ferrara, Allison A Rare Presentation of Asymptomatic Spontaneous Pneumomediastinum |
title | A Rare Presentation of Asymptomatic Spontaneous Pneumomediastinum |
title_full | A Rare Presentation of Asymptomatic Spontaneous Pneumomediastinum |
title_fullStr | A Rare Presentation of Asymptomatic Spontaneous Pneumomediastinum |
title_full_unstemmed | A Rare Presentation of Asymptomatic Spontaneous Pneumomediastinum |
title_short | A Rare Presentation of Asymptomatic Spontaneous Pneumomediastinum |
title_sort | rare presentation of asymptomatic spontaneous pneumomediastinum |
topic | Internal Medicine |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8020193/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33833916 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.13695 |
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