Subcutaneous, Mediastinal and Probable Subpericardial Emphysema Treated with Recompression

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THE purpose of this paper is to report a case of mediastinal, subcutaneous and probable subpericardial emphysema treated by recompression, with subsequent recovery.Spontaneous mediastinal emphysema and its bizarre auscultatory "crunch," first described by Hamman1 in 1939, is a well known clinical and radiologic entity. Subpericardial emphysema resulting from the presence of gases within the pericardial sac after penetrating wounds, infections by gas-forming bacilli, rupture of hollow viscus or rupture of the pulmonary parenchyma into and through the pericardium during the course of granulomatous fibroadherent infections, though admittedly rare, has previously been reported. However, subpericardial emphysema associated with mediastinal and . . .

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