A Rare Case of Isolated Pneumomediastinum Following Blunt Trauma

Duygu YILMAZ; Irfan BAYHAN; Mehmet Oguzhan AY; Ali Kemal ERENLER

Volume : VII, Issue : XI, November - 2017

A Rare Case of Isolated Pneumomediastinum Following Blunt Trauma

Duygu Yilmaz, Irfan Bayhan, Mehmet Oguzhan Ay, Ali Kemal Erenler

Abstract :

Pneumomediastinum (PM) –presence of air or other gas in the mediastinum– is a potentially life–threatening condition which may occur as spontaneous, traumatic or iatrogenic. In usual, it has several concomittant lethal clinical conditions such as pneumothorax, hemothorax, rib fracture or pneumopericardium. In this case, we present you a young male with PM who developed an isolated symptom of subcutaneous emphysema after blunt chest trauma. The diagnosis of PM was based on computed tomography and any other concomittant injuries could not be determined.