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Editor, Senior Moderator
Radiol Case Rep
. 2021 Jul 30.
doi: 10.1016/j.radcr.2021.07.062. Online ahead of print.
Simultaneous spontaneous pneumomediastinum and pneumopericardium in a critically ill patient with COVID-19
Mohammad Javad Behzadnia[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Abbas Samim[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Fatemeh Saboori[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Mosa Asadi[SUP] 3 [/SUP], Mohammad Javanbakht[SUP] 3 [/SUP]
Affiliations
Abstract
Case in the paper is of a 24-year-old woman presenting to Baqiyatallah hospital, Tehran, Iran with the occasional fever, weakness, myalgia, fatigue, body aches, and headache who was diagnosed with Coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) PCR test. Chest computed tomography (CT) showed spontaneous pneumomediastinum (SPM) and pneumopericardium (SPP). Here, we described SPM and SPP in a patient with COVID-19, presenting a severe course of the disease.
Keywords: COVID-19; CT; Lung; Pneumomediastinum; Pneumopericardium.
. 2021 Jul 30.
doi: 10.1016/j.radcr.2021.07.062. Online ahead of print.
Simultaneous spontaneous pneumomediastinum and pneumopericardium in a critically ill patient with COVID-19
Mohammad Javad Behzadnia[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Abbas Samim[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Fatemeh Saboori[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Mosa Asadi[SUP] 3 [/SUP], Mohammad Javanbakht[SUP] 3 [/SUP]
Affiliations
- PMID: 34345323
- PMCID: PMC8321708
- DOI: 10.1016/j.radcr.2021.07.062
Abstract
Case in the paper is of a 24-year-old woman presenting to Baqiyatallah hospital, Tehran, Iran with the occasional fever, weakness, myalgia, fatigue, body aches, and headache who was diagnosed with Coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) PCR test. Chest computed tomography (CT) showed spontaneous pneumomediastinum (SPM) and pneumopericardium (SPP). Here, we described SPM and SPP in a patient with COVID-19, presenting a severe course of the disease.
Keywords: COVID-19; CT; Lung; Pneumomediastinum; Pneumopericardium.