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Correspondence to: ABSTRACT : Third molar surgery is the most common surgical procedure in the oral cavity. [scielo.conicyt.cl]

Categories: Patient education, Surgical procedures Tagged as: bleb resection, blebectomy, blebs, catamenial pneumothorax, chemical pleurodesis, linkedin, patient education and discussion, spontaneous pneumothorax, talc pleurodesis, VATs [thoracics.org]

Lung volume reduction surgery is a surgical procedure in which the most diseased parts of the lung are removed to enable the remaining lung and breathing muscles to work more efficiently. [medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com]

organ dysfunction syndrome, and much more. [books.google.com]

Avoid hypothermia in the neonate. [patient.info]

Floyer warned his patients to avoid tobacco smoke, metallic fumes, and other potential irritants because he believed that they caused pulmonary disorders. He was right. * elasticity is the ability to be stretched and to return to original shape. [humanillnesses.com]

The chest becomes barrel-shaped and there is wheezing and shortness of breath. emphysema a pulmonary disorder involving overdistention and destruction of the air spaces in the lungs. [medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com]

There was clinical evidence of subcutaneous emphysema in the neck and the upper thoracic area with swelling, crunchy feel, palpable crepitus and noisy crackling sounds on auscultation. [ispub.com]

Figure 1: Subcutaneous emphysema involving face, neck and upper part of the chest Click here to view Biochemistry parameters were random blood sugar - 97 mg/dl, urea - 140 mg/dl, creatinine - 1.8 mg/dl. [ijhas.in]

The chest and neck radiographs showed pneumomediastinum, pneumopericardium and subcutaneous emphysema in the neck and prevertebral space, but there was no evidence of pneumothorax ( Figure 1 ). [kjim.org]

The patient may remain asymptomatic or may have symptoms such as chest pain, dyspnea, dysphagia, dysphonia, coughing, and/or neck swelling. Our patient had neck swelling and dysphagia after coughing. [mjdrdypu.org]

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In the absence of mediastinal pathology, gas usually dissects along fascial planes into the mediastinum and soft tissues of the neck (subcutaneous emphysema) or retroperitoneum (pneumoperitoneum). [alpfmedical.info]

Extraalveolar air might also find its way through the loosely packed paraesophageal connective tissue into the peritoneal cavity resulting in pneumoperitoneum or pneumoretrperitoneum (15, 16). [ispub.com]

On follow up CXR that was performed 3 days after the surgery, pneumomediastinum and pneumoperitoneum were not observed. In addition, no additional complications developed until the patient was discharged one week later ( Fig. 3 ). [e-aps.org]

External introduction of air can cause pneumomediastinum, such as air introduced from trauma, surgery (usually mediastinoscopy, tracheostomy, or sternotomy), or pneumoperitoneum. [clinicaladvisor.com]

As a result, air present within the mediastinum may dissect through these tissue planes, causing pneumopericardium, pneumothorax, subcutaneous emphysema, pneumoperitoneum, or pneumoretroperitoneum. [emedicine.medscape.com]

Effusion & Cardiac Activity. [books.google.com]

Tension can develop without lung collapse or even major volume loss when the lung is heavily infiltrated, or when air is trapped or bound locally by pleural adhesions. [alpfmedical.info]

The probable mechanism in our patient could be due to the existence of pleural adhesions surrounded the point of rupture. [ijhas.in]