Is Every Chest Pain from Cardiac Origin?
Abstract
Pneumomediastinum is the presence of air in the mediastinum. It can be divided into two as spontaneous and skonder pneumomediastinum. Spontaneous pneumomediastinum is a self-limitting rare clinical entity with good prognosis without an apparent cause. It occurs in young male patients most frequently. It is a benign disease with symptoms such as chest pain, dyspnea, coughing, odinophagia, subcutaneous emphysema, swelling of neck. Chest pain and subcutaneous emphysema are most common symptoms. Most of the patients admit to emergency department (ED) with chest pain. Plain chest radiogram is often adequate for diagnosis but computarized tomography (CT) is golden standard.
We aimed to present the patient that admitted to ED with chest pain, whose chest radiogram was clear but thorax CT was performed because of clinical suspicion and diagnosed with pneumomediastinum.
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Details
Primary Language
English
Subjects
Health Care Administration
Journal Section
Case Report
Authors
Elnare Günal
KAFKAS ÜNİVERSİTESİ, FEN-EDEBİYAT FAKÜLTESİ, BATI DİLLERİ VE EDEBİYATLARI BÖLÜMÜ, İNGİLİZ DİLİ VE EDEBİYATI ANABİLİM DALI
Türkiye
Publication Date
December 15, 2016
Submission Date
September 7, 2016
Acceptance Date
December 12, 2016
Published in Issue
Year 2016 Volume: 18 Number: 3