External trauma to the larynx is rare with an incidence of 1/30 000. It usually presents in young adult males, after traffic or sports accidents. The presence of pneumomediastinum and/or pneumopericardium is a rare condition which may occur after a laryngeal trauma, secondary to the Valsalva effect in the airways caused by a coughing fit, deep breathing, nausea or vomiting. Minor dehiscence of ...

TOPIC: Critical Care TYPE: Fellow Case Reports INTRODUCTION: We present a rare case of cardiac tamponade and suppurative pericarditis with large pneumopericardium following an esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD), which diagnosed esophageal fistula. CASE PRESENTATION: 59-year-old female mesothelioma treated left pleurodesis-decortication, radiation chemotherapy presented for EGD to work-up several ...

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Neonatal pneumopericardium (PPC) is a rare form of neonatal air leak syndrome with high morbidity and mortality. Air leak syndrome in the newborn is usually associated with active resuscitation, respiratory distress syndrome, meconium aspiration syndrome, mechanical ventilation, or trauma associated with labour. Neonatal PPC can be associated with other air leak syndromes such as pneumomediasti...

A 74-year-old male patient receiving ventilatory support due to aspiration pneumonia developed bilateral pneumothorax, pneumopericardium, pneumomediastinum, pneumo-retroperitoneum, and subcutaneous emphysema, after manual ventilation while being transferred from the intensive care unit (ICU) to the operating room (OR). These complications were assumed to be secondary to inappropriate manual ven...

The presence of free air within a hiatal hernia sac is an uncommon reported entity. This finding has been described in the surgical literature1-4 secondary to incarcerated hiatal hernias complicated by gastric ulceration and perforation. There have, however, been no reports of this entity in the radiology literature. Our patient presented to the emergency department complaining of epigastric pa...