THE purpose of this paper is to report a case of mediastinal, subcutaneous and probable subpericardial emphysema treated by recompression, with subsequent recovery. On February 11, 1958, a 19-year-old ...
MEDIASTINAL emphysema, its precursors and its sequelae have been known to clinicians for well over a century. Laënnec, 1 in his treatise on diseases of the chest, published in 1819, gave an amazingly ...