title: Childhood asthma predisposes to spontaneous pneumomediastinum.
abstract: Spontaneous pneumomediastinum is a rare condition for which potentially life threatening differential diagnoses must be excluded. A case is presented of a young man with a history of severe childhood asthma, who was successfully treated conservatively.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, King's College Hospital, Denmark Hill, London SE5 9RS, UK. mominaziz@hotmail.com
authors.forename: A U
authors.initials: AU
authors.lastname: Momin
authors.forename: D A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Chung
authors.forename: L C H
authors.initials: LC
authors.lastname: John
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001249:Asthma / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008478:Mediastinal Emphysema / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology*; D011379:Prognosis; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed