Background: Since the beginning of ongoing Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, pneumomediastinum has been reported in patients with COVID-19 pneumonia and acute respiratory distress syndrome. It suggested that may portend a worse outcome such although no investigation established this association definitively. Research Question: We hypothesized finding setting disease be associated cl...

Introduction:Spontaneous pneumomediastinum, pneumothorax, and subcutaneous emphysema are rare, but serious complications of inflammatory myopathies and occur more commonly in DM than PM. complications of dermatomyositis (DM) and polymyositis (PM), both of which can be fatal. Case Report:A 20-year-old woman was admitted with neck pain, dyspnea, cough, and fever. She had been diagnosed with derma...

Background: Pneumomediastinum (PM) is caused by alveolar rapture. If air leak persists, subcutaneous emphysema occurs. The PM and subcutaneous emphysema have various etiologies. Common causes are respiratory tract infections and asthma exacerbations. Rarely, the PM occurs secondary to foreign body aspiration, and the life-threatening complications will occur without proper treatment. Case repo...

A 51-year-old manwith a history of rectal adenocarcinoma presented to the emergency department with abdominal pain, distension, and obstipation for 2 days. Computed tomography (CT) scan of the abdomen showed malignant colonic obstruction (●" Fig.1a,b). The patient underwent flexible sigmoidoscopywith successful deployment of a self-expanding metal stent (SEMS) for emergency decompression (●" Fi...

Spontaneous pneumomediastinum (SPM) is a rare condition in young adults, usually affecting healthy males with underlying pulmonary disease, which can be extremely rarely complicated pneumopericardium (SPP).