title: Subcutaneous emphysema, pneumo-orbita and pneumomediastinum following a facial trauma caused by a high-pressure car washer.
abstract: Pneumomediastinum is air leakage to mediastinal space from various potential sites, including lung, esophagus, trachea, and neck. It is a rare condition that develops either spontaneously with increased intraalveolar or intrabronchial pressure, or due to trauma. Although cases where face or neck trauma with subcutaneous emphysema that extended to mediastinal cavity via anatomical connections in face and neck have been reported, orbital traumas leading to pneumomediastinum are very rare occurrences that have seldom been reported. This paper documents a 17-year-old male who presented with diffuse subcutaneous emphysema involving paraorbital facial areas, which extended to neck and mediastinal cavity.
authors.affiliation: Department of Emergency Medicine, Numune Training and Research Hospital, Ankara, Turkey. fevzi_yilmaz2002@yahoo.com.
authors.forename: Fevzi
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Yılmaz
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiology, Başkent University Faculty of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey.
authors.forename: Orçun
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Çiftçi
authors.affiliation: Department of Emergency Medicine, Numune Training and Research Hospital, Ankara, Turkey.
authors.forename: Miray
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Özlem
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Numune Training and Research Hospital, Ankara, Turkey.
authors.forename: Erdal
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Komut
authors.affiliation: Department of Emergency Medicine, Numune Training and Research Hospital, Ankara, Turkey.
authors.forename: Ertuğrul
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Altunbilek
mesh_terms: D000059:Accidents; D000293:Adolescent; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005131:Eye Injuries / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D006801:Humans; D015601:Injury Severity Score; D008297:Male; D008478:Mediastinal Emphysema / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D019838:Neck Injuries / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D013352:Subcutaneous Emphysema / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed