title: [Diagnostic image (206). A woman with dyspnoea and retrosternal pain after vaginal delivery].
abstract: A 27-year-old healthy woman suffered from dyspnoea and retrosternal pain after a spontaneous vaginal delivery due to a pneumomediastinum and subcutaneous emphysema caused by labour.
authors.affiliation: Academisch Medisch Centrum/Universiteit van Amsterdam, afd. Obstetrie en Gynaecologie, Postbus 22.660, 1100 DD Amsterdam. h.pelikan@tiscali.nl
authors.forename: H M P
authors.initials: HM
authors.lastname: Pelikan
authors.forename: J E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: van de Riet
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D036861:Delivery, Obstetric; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004417:Dyspnea; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008478:Mediastinal Emphysema / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology*; D007744:Obstetric Labor Complications / Q000175:diagnosis; D010146:Pain / Q000209:etiology; D011247:Pregnancy; D011644:Puerperal Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology*; D013352:Subcutaneous Emphysema / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology*