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IMAGES IN CARDIOTHORACIC TRAUMA |
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Year : 2017 | Volume
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| Issue : 1 | Page : 23 |
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Pneumomediastinum as Revealed during Video-assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery
Moheb A Rashid
Department of Surgery, The Norwegian Southern Hospital, Kristiansand, Norway; Scandinavian Cardiovascular Surgery Center, Gothenburg, Sweden
Date of Web Publication | 15-Dec-2017 |
Correspondence Address: Moheb A Rashid Department of Surgery, The Norwegian Southern Hospital, Kristiansand, Norway; Scandinavian Cardiovascular Surgery Center, Gothenburg Sweden
 Source of Support: None, Conflict of Interest: None  | Check |
DOI: 10.4103/jctt.jctt_2_17
How to cite this article: Rashid MA. Pneumomediastinum as Revealed during Video-assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery. J Cardiothorac Trauma 2017;2:23 |
 | Figure 1: It is truly said “one picture is worth a thousand words.” An image of pneumomediastinum is no exception of this statement. These photos were taken during a video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery for massive pneumothorax with associated pneumomediastinum. There are so many published documents of radiological figures of pneumomediastinum; however, to the best of our knowledge, this is the first surgical image of pneumomediastinum
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 | Figure 2: The massive air bubbles infiltrating the fatty tissues around the heart are clearly seen. The phrenic nerve is also well shown diagonally through the images
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