title: [Pneumothorax after mediastinal emphysema. The site and mechanism of pleural rupture].
abstract: By rupture of the mediastinal pleura a mediastinal emphysema may lead to a pneumothorax. An experiment imitating this process is able to point out two spots where the pleura is most likely to tear: An area as large as a thumb tip above the root of the left lung; there mediastinal pleura covers a space the width of which changes most in respirating. The border of a fatty fold based on the pericardium and covered by mediastinal pleura; it is there that maxima of tension occur by emphysematic inflation. In general, air from the mediastinum far more often enters the left pleural cavity than the right one.
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001696:Biomechanical Phenomena; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008478:Mediastinal Emphysema / Q000150:complications* / Q000503:physiopathology; D008875:Middle Aged; D011030:Pneumothorax / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology
vernacular_title: Pneumothorax nach Mediastinalemphysem. Uber den Ort und den Mechanisms der Pleuraruptur.