Pneumomediastinum and Subcutaneous Emphysema in Status Asthmaticus, requiring Surgical Decompression
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Pneumomediastinum and subcutaneous emphysema in status asthmaticus, requiring surgical decompression.
Leakage of air into the interstitial tissues of the lungs of sufficient degree to produce pneumomediastinum and subcutaneous emphysema is an uncommon and potentially fatal complication of bronchial asthma in childhood. Another possibly fatal complication of similar causation is tension pneumothorax. It is possible that interstitial emphysema occurs more frequently in severe asthma and allied st...
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عنوان ژورنال: Archives of Disease in Childhood
سال: 1960
ISSN: 0003-9888,1468-2044
DOI: 10.1136/adc.35.182.389