pneumomediastinum

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• Most cases of pneumomediastinum are caused by surgery or trauma to the airway or upper gastrointestinal tract.

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• Spontaneous pneumomediastinum is rare, occurring once in every 7,000 to 12,000 hospital admissions.

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• A working diagnosis of pneumomediastinum was made.

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• The last of these is the usual etiology of spontaneous pneumomediastinum.

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• Treatment of pneumomediastinum is also conservative, but most experts advocate giving 100% oxygen to increase the rate of gas resorption.

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• The most common symptom of pneumomediastinum is a stabbing precordial chest pain that radiates to the arms and back.

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• A chest radiograph detected extensive subcutaneous emphysema of the right neck and shoulder together with a pneumomediastinum (Figure 1).

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• In the rare situation of hemodynamic embarrassment caused by tension pneumomediastinum, surgical decompression of the mediastinum might be indicated.

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• The classic sign of pneumomediastinum is Hamman's sign, a crunching sound over the precordium that is synchronous with ventricular systole.

  Academic text (2006)

• Spontaneous pneumomediastinum is rare, occurring once in every 7,000 to 12,000 hospital admissions.

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