Spontaneous mediastinal emphysema and its bizarre auscultatory "crunch," first described by Hamman 1 in 1939, is a well known clinical and radiologic entity. Subpericardial emphysema resulting ...

In Figure 3 C the pericardium appears free of disease but in Figure 3 B, a tangential view of the involved pericardium, the gas does not separate pericardium from mediastinal pleura. Figure 3 ...

We report a case of mediastinitis complicating a dental infection in a 40-year-old male. Despite drainage of the localised neck abscess and the administration of systemic antibiotics, his ...

The layers that cover the heart (mediastinal pleura and parietal pericardium) Or the cancer is less than 7cm, but there is more than one tumour in the same lobe of the lung. Lung cancer: Stage 3 ...

it has grown into the chest wall (ribs, muscle or skin), the inner lining of the chest wall (parietal pleura), the nerve close to the lung (the phrenic nerve), the layers of the sac that covers the ...

mediastinum; surface of the outer covering of your heart (pericardium) Surgery to completely remove the mesothelioma might still be possible. T4 mesothelioma means mesothelioma is in all layers of the ...

Pericardial effusion (P < .001) and Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status > or = 2 (P = .009) predicted nonresponse (NR) and affected survival. Less than partial midway response ...

Pneumopericardium is when you have gas or air in the sac around your heart. Learn about the causes, symptoms, and treatment options for this condition today.