MEDIASTINAL EMPHYSEMA

Mediastinal Emphysema

Acute Mediastinal Emphysema with Generalized Emphysema

Spontaneous mediastinal emphysema.

OBJECTIVE Spontaneous mediastinal emphysema is uncommon. Its cause has not been determined precisely, but the entity is usually associated with suddenly raised alveolar pressure. METHODS Between 1980 and 2001, 114 patients with mediastinal emphysema of various causes were hospitalized in the Wolfson Medical Center. In 22 of these patients (19.3%) the emphysema occurred without an obvious prec...

Nontraumatic mediastinal emphysema in childhood.

This condition has been described as occurring in both adults and children and is probably uncommon rather than rare. There are few recorded cases in the British paediatric literature, but in discussion of the subject with colleagues occasional instances in children have been mentioned. In the absence of the associated subcutaneous emphysema the mediastinal collection of air is likely to be ove...

Mediastinal emphysema: aetiology, diagnosis, and treatment.

1. Rupture of marginal alveoli into the pulmonary interstitial tissue and thence to the mediastinum 2. Mixed aetiological factors (The mode of production is not yet certain.) (a) Spontaneous pneumomediastinum (b) Trauma to the chest wall 3. Air entering the mediastinum from the deep fascial planes of the neck 4. Air entering the mediastinum from the retroperitoneal space 5. Perforation of the t...