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Rare Case of Spontaneous Pneumorrhachis in a Young Male with COVID-19

Here we present a rare case of spontaneous pneumomediastinum complicated with pneumorrhachis (PR) in a young man who is a known case of carcinoma rectosigmoid region. Our young male was diagnosed with novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and remained asymptomatic for any respiratory complaints....

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Autores principales: Reddy, Vikas, Jajodia, Ankush, Pasricha, Sunil, Goyal, Sumit, Puri, Sunil
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Thieme Medical and Scientific Publishers Pvt. Ltd. 2021
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8590553/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34790333
http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0041-1735920
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author Reddy, Vikas
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description Here we present a rare case of spontaneous pneumomediastinum complicated with pneumorrhachis (PR) in a young man who is a known case of carcinoma rectosigmoid region. Our young male was diagnosed with novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and remained asymptomatic for any respiratory complaints. Though an association of pneumomediastinum has been reported in COVID 19 patients, to the best of our knowledge, this is the first report of PR in a COVID-19 oncological case. The role of a radiologist is to identify this condition as cases reported earlier may have serious neurological consequences. Pursuing the cause can be a diagnostic challenge but it reaps the clinical benefit in the appropriate management.
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spelling pubmed-85905532021-11-16 Rare Case of Spontaneous Pneumorrhachis in a Young Male with COVID-19 Reddy, Vikas Jajodia, Ankush Pasricha, Sunil Goyal, Sumit Puri, Sunil Indian J Radiol Imaging Here we present a rare case of spontaneous pneumomediastinum complicated with pneumorrhachis (PR) in a young man who is a known case of carcinoma rectosigmoid region. Our young male was diagnosed with novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and remained asymptomatic for any respiratory complaints. Though an association of pneumomediastinum has been reported in COVID 19 patients, to the best of our knowledge, this is the first report of PR in a COVID-19 oncological case. The role of a radiologist is to identify this condition as cases reported earlier may have serious neurological consequences. Pursuing the cause can be a diagnostic challenge but it reaps the clinical benefit in the appropriate management. Thieme Medical and Scientific Publishers Pvt. Ltd. 2021-10-06 /pmc/articles/PMC8590553/ /pubmed/34790333 http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0041-1735920 Text en Indian Radiological Association. This is an open access article published by Thieme under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonDerivative-NonCommercial License, permitting copying and reproduction so long as the original work is given appropriate credit. Contents may not be used for commercial purposes, or adapted, remixed, transformed or built upon. ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ ) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License, which permits unrestricted reproduction and distribution, for non-commercial purposes only; and use and reproduction, but not distribution, of adapted material for non-commercial purposes only, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_sort rare case of spontaneous pneumorrhachis in a young male with covid-19
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8590553/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34790333
http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0041-1735920
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