Flávia Paiva Lobo Lopes, Edson Marchiori, Gláucia Zanetti, Talita Fonseca Medeiros da Silva, Laura Brasil Herranz, Maria Isabel de Brito Almeida
Radiol Bras 2010;43(2):137-139 - CASE REPORT
The present article reports the case of a 14-year-old male patient who developed acute chest pain following increased vocal effort during a soccer game. Chest radiography and computed tomography demonstrated pneudomediastinum with small bilateral pneumothorax. Clinical, laboratory and radiological studies did not demonstrate any predisposing factor, and the case was classified as spontaneous pneudomediastinum.
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