Mediastinal Emphysema Following Videoscopic Retroperitoneal Surgery.

Videoscopic adrenalectomy – when does retroperitoneal seem better?

INTRODUCTION Videoscopic adrenalectomy is the gold standard for the surgical treatment of benign adrenal tumours. The two most common approaches are the lateral transperitoneal approach (LTA) and the posterior retroperitoneal approach (PRA). So far it has not been established which is the preferable one. The choice depends primarily on the surgeon's preference and contraindications for a partic...

Mediastinal Emphysema

Mediastinal emphysema following extradural analgesia in a ventilated patient.

A case of mediastinal emphysema developing in a patient under general anaesthesia supplemented with epidural analgesia is described. A possible cause is discussed and its prevention considered.

Mediastinal emphysema following fracture of the orbital floor

Pneumomediastinum (PM) is mainly an atypical finding among traumatic neck or thoracic injury patients. Moreover, PM secondary to isolated orbital floor fracture remains a rare event which is infrequently associated with severe complications such as mediastinitis, airway obstruction and pneumothorax. Herein, we report an atypical case of mediastinal emphysema consequent to orbital floor fracture...

Mediastinal and Retro-orbital emphysema following an uncomplicated endoscopic sphincterotomy

We report a case of mediastinal and bilateral retro-orbital emphysema following an uncomplicated endoscopic sphincterotomy. The concurrent presence of these complications following endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography is rare. The simultaneous occurrence of these two complications in the same patient has not been previously reported in the literature. Furthermore, we define the first ...