European Medical Journal

Chest Pain Beyond Asthma: A Case of Spontaneous Pneumomediastinum in a Young Adult with Asthma

Spontaneous pneumomediastinum (SPM) refers to the presence of free air in the mediastinum without preceding trauma or iatrogenic cause.
CMAJ

Spontaneous pneumomediastinum

An 82-year-old woman with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease presented to the emergency department with atraumatic swelling of the chest and neck. On examination, she had soft tissue crepitus in ...
Nature

EBV post transplantation lymphoproliferative disease-associated pneumomediastinum in a pediatric patient with long-lasting low loads of plasma EBV-DNA positivity

We report a patient with extensive chronic-GVHD (c-GVHD) after BMT in whom pneumomediastinum and subcutaneous emphysema developed as the first sign of EBV post transplantation lymphoproliferative ...
Nature

Subcutaneous Emphysema and Pneumomediastinum as Presenting Manifestations of Neonatal Tracheal Injury

Baby C. was born at 39 weeks' gestation through vaginal delivery complicated by shoulder dystocia. Apgar scores were 7 and 8 at 1and 5 minutes, respectively. The birth weight was 4165 g (>90th ...